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Re: Erroneous Network Traffic Affects Ethernet Debugging on PowerPC

From: "Mike Arthur" <arth2219 at gmail dot com>
To: "Gary Thomas" <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:09:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Erroneous Network Traffic Affects Ethernet Debugging on PowerPC
References: <2a3305fe0709070752w7c1bca5eg37b06c2f6ab0ffe8@mail.gmail.com> <46E1697A.1010107@mlbassoc.com>

> The second problem you describe is an old one.  Again, since
> the ethernet hardware is being shared, things can get confused,
> especially during system startup.  What's happening is that the
> eCos application is reinitializing the network hardware, but at
> the same time, trying to print messages using that same hardware.
> This simply can't work.  I put a change into the stack (years ago)
> that side-steps this by forcing those initialization messages
> to go to the raw serial console, rather than via the network.
>

I think I found the config option that you speak of:
CYGPKG_NET_FORCE_SERIAL_CONSOLE.  Once I set this option, the
'default' and the 'net' templates behaved the same.  Thank you!

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References:
- Erroneous Network Traffic Affects Ethernet Debugging on PowerPC
  - From: Mike Arthur
- Re: Erroneous Network Traffic Affects Ethernet Debugging on PowerPC
  - From: Gary Thomas

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