Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:48:18 -0500

Dirk,

> when I reboot a Motorola MVME5110, it takes ages (30 sec to be exact) 
> until the vxWorks boot procedure starts. It takes another 30 seconds 
> starting the loaded vxWorks kernel.
> 
> Does anyone know what the board is doing in all that time? 
> The MVME2306 have never waited for so long. Can I reduce that time?

I see exactly the same 30 second delays on MVME2700 when they are connected to certain models of Ethernet switches.  I believe it is a problem with the 10/100 or full/half duplex negotiation.  I have always been able to eliminate the problem by putting an Ethernet hub between those switches and the MVME2700.  I believe that Andrew Johnson made changes to the bootrom code and BSP to try to fix the problem, but they did not help.

Mark Rivers

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System