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18 years ago

TSE MAC and Marvell 88E1111

I'm having trouble to bring up the TSE MAC to Ethernet interface on the Stratix II GX PCIe board. I was able to instantiate a triple speed Ethernet MAC and build logic around it. The loopback at the ...
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16 years ago

Not all registers are standard, unfortunately.

You can have a look at the TSE driver, it has a few lines configuring the Marvell PHY, you can re-use them in your project.

As for the empty data packet, it can come from the CPU data cache. Try to flush the data cache before sending the packet, or use the alt_remap_uncached() function to modify your pointer to the memory buffer that you fill in.