On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > On 10/19/07, Li Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The SerDes(serializer/deserializer) PHY block is a new SoC block used >> in Freescale chips to support multiple serial interfaces, such as PCI >> Express, SGMII, SATA. > > This looks like board setup behaviour. Shouldn't setting this up be > the responsibility firmware? And failing that, I think it should be > done directly by the platform setup function (in other words; make it > a helper function and call it at board setup time). Besides, you want > to provide guarantees that the board is setup correctly before the > device driver that uses it gets probed. > > Cheers, > g.
Upon further review of all this I don't think this belongs in the kernel at all. This is one time setup and should be done in firmware. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
