On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:22:31 +1000 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Based on BenH's earlier work, this is a new version of the EMAC driver > for the built-in ethernet found on PowerPC 4xx embedded CPUs. The > same ASIC is also found in the Axon bridge chip. This new version is > designed to work in the arch/powerpc tree, using the device tree to > probe the device, rather than the old and ugly arch/ppc OCP layer. > > This driver is designed to sit alongside the old driver (it lies in > drivers/net/ibm_emac and this one in drivers/net/ibm_newemac). The > old driver is left in place to support arch/ppc until arch/ppc itself > reaches its final demise (not too long now, with luck). > > This driver still has a number of things that could do with cleaning > up, but I think they can be fixed up after merging. Specifically: > - Should be adjusted to properly use the dma mapping API. > Axon needs this. > - Probe logic needs reworking, in conjuction with the general > probing code for of_platform devices. The dependencies here between > EMAC, MAL, ZMII etc. make this complicated. At present, it usually > works, because we initialize and register the sub-drivers before the > EMAC driver itself, and (being in driver code) runs after the devices > themselves have been instantiated from the device tree. > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hm. Should this go through Jeff Garzik or Paul? If it's the latter, I'll pull this into my git tree soon. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
