Re: Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce_Leonard
> > > Okay, I get that and it makes sense with what I know so far about how the > > kernel device model works (which I'm still learning). So how would I > > manually add a device? Say I create the PCI wrapper driver that claims > > the clone-TSEC, is there a "register device" type call simi

Re: Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Sean MacLennan
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:00:07 -0800 bruce_leon...@selinc.com wrote: > True, but we really didn't want to recreate all the infrastructure > that the gianfar driver has in it we wanted to just use it. Maybe > what I should do is just take the guts of the gianfar driver and make > a pure PCI driver ou

Re: Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:00:07 -0800 wrote: > Okay, I get that and it makes sense with what I know so far about how the > kernel device model works (which I'm still learning). So how would I > manually add a device? Say I create the PCI wrapper driver that claims > the clone-TSEC, is there a "r

Re: Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:23 -0600, Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:58:35 -0800 > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working on a project with an MPC8347 and three ethernet ports. Because > > of end of life issues we've had to replace the part we're using for the > > third ethernet port

Re: Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce_Leonard
Scott, Thanks for the feedback. > > Making a faithful clone of any reasonably complex device strikes me as > more work than writing a new ethernet driver. > > The last thing you want to end up doing is... > > > And for speed sake it would go on the PCI bus. > > (So much for letting HW make d

Re: Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:58:35 -0800 wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a project with an MPC8347 and three ethernet ports. Because > of end of life issues we've had to replace the part we're using for the > third ethernet port and we decided rather than rely on a vendor who would > pull a part

Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

2011-01-04 Thread Bruce_Leonard
Hi all, I'm working on a project with an MPC8347 and three ethernet ports. Because of end of life issues we've had to replace the part we're using for the third ethernet port and we decided rather than rely on a vendor who would pull a part out from under us every two to three years we would do