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Missing Features and known Issues/Limitations in DriverThe current driver assumes that Axi Ethernet IP is connected to the DMA at the hardware level.
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current driver doesn't use dma engine framework and containsDriver doesn't support software Time stamping it support only hardware Time Stamping.
No support for fixed-link
For 1588 testing the Current driver assumes that AXI Stream FIFO is connected to the MAC TX Time stamp Stream interface at the design level.
If the AXI DMA driver got selected then Ethernet driver probe will fail with the below or similar error (CONFIG_XILINX_AXIDMA=n)
ERROR:
xilinx_axienet 40c00000.ethernet: can't request region for resource [mem 0x41e00000-0x41e0ffff]
xilinx_axienet: probe of 40c00000.ethernet failed with error -16
Kernel Configuration
The following config options should be enabled in order to build the Axi Ethernet driver