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17 years ago

problem adding TSE_MAC + SGDMA

I'm having troubles adding TSE_MAC + SGDMA to interfacing with a Marvel Ethernet Phy. I'm using a Cyclone III board which I've purchased to DevBoards GmbH DBM_3C40. After download the .sof to the hardware, I've tried to run single socket server example from NIOS IDE and this is the log 


nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)
=============== Software License Reminder ================
This software project uses an unlicensed version of the NicheStack TCP/IP
Network Stack - Nios II Edition. If you want to ship resulting object
code in your product, you must purchase a license for this software from
Altera. For information go to: "http://www.altera.com/nichestack"
=====================================================
InterNiche Portable TCP/IP, v3.1 
Copyright 1996-2007 by InterNiche Technologies. All rights reserved. 
prep_tse_mac 0
Your Ethernet MAC address is 00:07:ed:ff:be:f8
Static IP Address is 0.10.10.11
prepped 1 interface, initializing...
INFO    : TSE MAC 0 found at address 0x02403800
INFO    : PHY Marvell 88E1111 found at PHY address 0x01 of MAC Group
INFO    : PHY - Automatically mapped to tse_mac_device
INFO    : PHY - Restart Auto-Negotiation, checking PHY link...
INFO    : PHY - Auto-Negotiation PASSED
INFO    : Applying additional PHY configuration of Marvell 88E1111
INFO    : PHY - Checking link...
INFO    : PHY - Link established
INFO    : PHY - Gigabit = 0, Duplex = Full
OK, x=1, CMD_CONFIG=0x00000000
MAC post-initialization: CMD_CONFIG=0x04000203
 RX descriptor chain desc (1 depth) created

It seems all is ok but the program never starts, any idea??

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    17 years ago

    1 - The first thing I would try is disabling DHCP. It might be fooling you if it's got a really long timeout set. You can either do this in the system library properties or just hack the netowork_utilities.c file.

    2 - Try debugging the code and seeing where it's hanging.

    3 - If this is a custom built system. Did you add a system timer with the appropriate timeout?

    Jake
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    17 years ago

    Did you create your task with the appropriate macro? When you are using Interniche you need to use a TK macro to do that, not the usual uC OS one.

    You can also try to add a few debug printf's in your code, to see when it freezes.
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    17 years ago

    1) I've disabled DHCP and I've set a fixed IP by modifying <network_utilities.c>

    3) I've set a system timer running at 10msecs

    I'll try to debug the code....