We have been investigating the issue of the network interface that is sometimes not properly initialized (as reported by @JakeK) and we found the issue. During u-boot board initialization, the network PHY is supposed to be reset by toggling a GPIO (GPIO19). Unfortunately in our u-boot implementation the PHY reset call was happening too early when the SoC pin muxing wasn't completed yet, which means the GPIO pull up and pull down wasn't physically happening.
We have added the fix to our u-boot repo : https://github.com/helios-4/u-boot-marvell/commit/15c179624b28ddab7d212a0ef0571bcec91cf2ed
@Igor Any chance you can trigger a build of just Helios4 u-boot and publish the u-boot .deb in the armbian repo ? This way everyone can easily get the fix by doing an upgrade. Thanks.
