Issue found in Armada 370: 10Mbps ethernet connection can't get IP

[Maggie Mae Roxas]

BTW - our ethernet chip is Marvell 88E1512.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Maggie Mae Roxas
<maggie.mae.roxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> Good day.
>
> We have previously discussed before on Armada 370 ethernet issues (now
> resolved via your suggestion/patches in recent kernel versions).
>
> We just found out last week that 10Mbps ethernet (SGMII) connection
> can't obtain IP in recent kernel versions (3.10.x and above). Here are
> the details:
>
> Processor: Armada 370 88F6707
> Board: Custom
> Kernel versions tried:
> 3.10.24 (issue exists)
> 3.13.9 (issue exists)
> 3.2.43 (issue does NOT exist)
> U-Boot versions tried: 2012_Q4 and 2013_Q1 from Marvell extranet
>
> Some more important notes:
> Both 100Mbps and 1000Mbps have no issues.
> Issue does not exist at u-boot level (via static IP address, confirmed
> via ping - results: 'x.x.x.x is alive')
> We have different LED configs for 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps - and LED
> shows 10Mbps is established (even ethtool does). However, we just
> can't obtain IP.
> Our kernel version 3.2.43 have patches from Marvell extranet (for Armada 370)
>
> Is there a known issue for this?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
> Maggie Roxas