> 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.
The latest u-boot supports the serdes initialization for 837x. So, it can be dropped from kernel for now. Dave _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
