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

[Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tijs,

> 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.

Yes, this patch is not in svn head yet but I have it in my repo. Will be there
in next release.

Thanks for noticing,
Michal

> 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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