Re: [E1000-devel] disable igb auto-negotiation

[Ran S. <ran...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:59 AM, James Courtier-Dutton
<jam...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 21:11 Ran Shalit, <ran...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Alexander Duyck
>> <ale...@gm...> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Ran Shalit <ran...@gm...>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Alexander Duyck
>> >> <ale...@gm...> wrote:
>> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Ran Shalit <ran...@gm...>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>> Hello,
>> >>>>
>>
>>
>> I tried many trials, but I always got the phy led turned off, and then
>> turned on, no matter what I did.
>> I would also add that my actual goal is to minimize the initialization
>> time of the igb, because we need fast boot time.
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> You will find that the NIC is initialized quite late in the boot process.
> I think that is likely to be the problem here.
> If you enable the NIC with netconsole, it will initialize much earlier in
> the boot process.
> You could give that a try, if it solves the boot time problem, you can then
> look at how netconsole works, and just implement the initialization of the
> NIC card, without sending console messages to the network.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
>
>
>

I will try that.

Yet, I just tried now to disable again reset phy in igb_main.c:
igb_power_up_link -> comment out igb_reset_phy
 and in e1000_phy,.c
retun from igb_phy_sw_reset and also from igb_phy_hw_reset.
Yet, it still reset phy....

Is there any idea why ?

Thank you,
ran