[ECOS] Issue with VIA Rhine II ethernet Driver on I386 platform in latest code base.

[Sriramkumar Raju]

Thanks Andrew it worked after adding some delay.

On 7/12/05, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:02:39PM +0530, Sriramkumar Raju wrote:
> > Hi,
> >      I had ported RedBoot to i386 platform having VIA Rhine II
> > Ethernet controller. It is working well with the code base that I got
> > from "http://safariexamples.informit.com/0130354732/".
> >
> > I took the latest eCOS code base from
> > "http://ecos.sourceware.org/anoncvs.html" by executing the command
> > "cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@ecos.sourceware.org:/cvs/ecos co -P
> > ecos".
> > I did the porting of the VIA Rhine driver to the i386 platform in
> > latest code base. The system failed to boot. So i tried to debug it by
> > enabling the DEBUG in Rhine driver and some more diag_printf
> > statements. So after adding debug I got the system booting and got
> > DHCP ip address from the DHCP server. I am able to telnet to the
> > target.
> >
> > I want to know what might be reason that makes my system to come up
> > once I add the debug message. Do I need to change the memory
> > configuration of my system while porting the driver to i386 platform?
> 
> The debug messages might have changed the timing such that some
> hardware dependant timing works with the debug messages and not
> without them. What you can try to do is slowly remove the debug
> messages and see which one is critcal. That might give you a clue as
> to while bit of code is causing the problem.
> 
>         Andrew
>

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