Re: [microblaze-uclinux] New PetaLinux release - call for patches and bug reports

[Tijs van den Bogaard <tijs.van.den.bogaard@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Include is a very small patch to speedup the communication speed detection for 
the Xilinx ll_temac network driver. 

Originally it attempted 1000x to negotiate 1Gb, then 1000x 100Mb and after 
that it tried to setup 10Mb. If you had a 100Mb connection, you would have to 
wait a minute for the 1Gb negotiation to fail. The patch only reduced the 
number of attempts to 40 times. This resulted in a boot time reduction of 55 
seconds. I'm using it here on a Xilinx ML506 Virtex 5 for quite a while.

Cheers,
Tijs.

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 00:42:12 John Williams wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> It's time for a new PetaLinux snapshot release - the biggest change will of
> course be the merge of complete MMU support (previously only available
> through the SubVersion repo), but there's a lot of other small additions
> and cleanup in there as well.
>
> Before we cut the release, I'd like to ask anyone who has any outstanding
> issues with the current SVN head to please let us know quickly!  Any
> patches, or bugs you have found but maybe not reported (and maybe even ones
> you have), please tell us so we can try to get them included in the next
> release.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John



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< 		wait_count = 1000;	/* so we don't loop forever */
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> 		wait_count = 40;	/* so we don't loop forever */