On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:15:39AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.
Through Jeff Garzik, I think. I was planning to send it to him today
or tomorrow if there are no screams from the linuxppc-dev list.
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