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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/fec_mxc.c30
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
index d3100165164..549d6486136 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
@@ -719,13 +719,37 @@ static int fec_send(struct eth_device *dev, void *packet, int length)
break;
}
- if (!timeout)
+ if (!timeout) {
ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
- invalidate_dcache_range(addr, addr + size);
- if (readw(&fec->tbd_base[fec->tbd_index].status) & FEC_TBD_READY)
+ /*
+ * The TDAR bit is cleared when the descriptors are all out from TX
+ * but on mx6solox we noticed that the READY bit is still not cleared
+ * right after TDAR.
+ * These are two distinct signals, and in IC simulation, we found that
+ * TDAR always gets cleared prior than the READY bit of last BD becomes
+ * cleared.
+ * In mx6solox, we use a later version of FEC IP. It looks like that
+ * this intrinsic behaviour of TDAR bit has changed in this newer FEC
+ * version.
+ *
+ * Fix this by polling the READY bit of BD after the TDAR polling,
+ * which covers the mx6solox case and does not harm the other SoCs.
+ */
+ timeout = FEC_XFER_TIMEOUT;
+ while (--timeout) {
+ invalidate_dcache_range(addr, addr + size);
+ if (!(readw(&fec->tbd_base[fec->tbd_index].status) &
+ FEC_TBD_READY))
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (!timeout)
ret = -EINVAL;
+out:
debug("fec_send: status 0x%x index %d ret %i\n",
readw(&fec->tbd_base[fec->tbd_index].status),
fec->tbd_index, ret);