{"id":1687,"date":"2016-04-01T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2016-04-01T00:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:53:25","slug":"arm-rock2-finally-an-ethernet-fix-that-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"ARM &#8211; Rock2 &#8211; Finally an Ethernet Fix that Works.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of searching &#8211; and more testing (mostly unsuccessful..) I finally have a set of <strong>two<\/strong> patches that fix the Ethernet driver problem with the Rock2 in 4.6-rc1..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The problem is that the <strong><em>stmmac<\/em><\/strong> driver is common to several SOC setups, and each maintainer seems to have produced their own version of a fix..<\/p>\n<p>The first patch is described here : <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1603.3\/00194.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1603.3\/00194.html <\/a><br \/>\nThe second is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinics.net\/lists\/netdev\/msg369463.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.spinics.net\/lists\/netdev\/msg369463.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After applying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">both<\/span> of these to 4.6-rc1, <span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">eth0<\/span> is now present, and network traffic works..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 March 31, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of searching &#8211; and more testing (mostly unsuccessful..) I finally have a set of two patches that fix the Ethernet driver problem with the Rock2 in 4.6-rc1..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The problem is that the stmmac driver is common to several SOC setups, and each maintainer seems to have produced their own version of a fix.. The <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1687\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1275,11,16,20,1276,1274,350],"tags":[1307,1303,298,1281,1282,1297,1175],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armv7","category-hacks","category-linux-arm","category-performance-2","category-radxa","category-rock2","category-success","tag-ethernet-driver","tag-kernel-4-6-rc1","tag-patches","tag-radxa","tag-rock2","tag-stmmac","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}