Stratix IV GT: Unknown PHY found at PHY address: Marvell 88E1111

Altera_Forum · ‎09-15-2013

I am currently working with the Stratix IV for 40Gbps development, and that is going well, but I am getting hung up on providing an interface for the main design via a simple socket server utilizing the Triple Speed Ethernet Core. I have gotten to the point where I can load the design onto the board and get output from the terminal, however it appears that I am not communicating with the external PHY( Marvell 88E1111 ) correctly.

InterNiche Portable TCP/IP, v3.1 
Copyright 1996-2008 by InterNiche Technologies. All rights reserved. 
prep_tse_mac 0
Can't read the MAC address from your board. We will assign you
a MAC address.
Your Ethernet MAC address is 00:07:ed:ff:c9:74
prepped 1 interface, initializing...
INFO    : TSE MAC 0 found at address 0x09002000
WARNING : Unknown PHY found at PHY address 0x00 of MAC Group
WARNING : Please add PHY information to PHY profile
INFO    : PHY - Automatically mapped to tse_mac_device
INFO    : PHY - Restart Auto-Negotiation, checking PHY link...
INFO    : PHY - Auto-Negotiation PASSED
WARNING : Unknown PHY found at PHY address 0x01 of MAC Group
WARNING : Please add PHY information to PHY profile
WARNING : PHY - Mapping of PHY to MAC failed! Make sure the PHY address is defined correctly in tse_mac_device structure, and number of PHYs connected is equivalent to number of channel
... repeat of the same set of messages up to address 0x1f 
WARNING : Unknown PHY found at PHY address 0x1f of MAC Group
WARNING : Please add PHY information to PHY profile
WARNING : PHY - Mapping of PHY to MAC failed! Make sure the PHY address is defined correctly in tse_mac_device structure, and number of PHYs connected is equivalent to number of channel
WARNING : MAC Group - Number of PHY connected is not equal to the number of channel, Number of PHY : 32, Channel : 1
INFO    : PHY - Restart Auto-Negotiation, checking PHY link...
INFO    : PHY - Auto-Negotiation PASSED
INFO    : PHY - Checking link...
INFO    : PHY - Link established
WARNING : PHY - PHY not found in PHY profile
INFO    : PHY - Speed = 100, Duplex = Full
OK, x=0, CMD_CONFIG=0x01000000
MAC post-initialization: CMD_CONFIG=0x05000203
 RX descriptor chain desc (1 depth) created
mctest init called
IP address of et1 :# ##.###.###.###
Created "clock tick" task (Prio: 3)
DHCP timed out, going back to default IP address(es)
Simple Socket Server starting up
 Simple Socket Server listening on port 23
Created "simple socket server" task (Prio: 4)

I have manually set an IP and MAC Address (IP was omitted for security purposes) and changed the listening port to 23, though I still cannot establish a connection. I believe that this is due to the "unknown PHY" warnings, which are themselves odd since the example code supports this phy by default. Normally I would use signalTap to check the mdio signals, but whenever I add signal tap to the design it forces the TSE core to go into evaluation mode ( I have no idea why ) and it can't be uploaded to the board.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thus thank you in advance.

Altera_Forum · ‎10-29-2013

HI mduda:

I have the same problem what about mapping of PHY to MAC failed.

Did you resolve it ?

if you or anybody know, please tell me how to do.

thanks :)