[U-Boot-Users] (no subject)

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <24857.212.50.56.195.1097168150.squirrel at new.host.name> you wrote:
> 
> Does u-boot communicate with any hardware on PCI bus without using
> interrupts. Is this the common way for u-boot (I mean u-boot ports for
> different architectures, especially comparing with prort for the mpc824x
> arch.).

Normally U-Boot uses polled drivers only,  i.  e.  it  does  not  use
interrupts.

> By the way, I have to say that leds on the ethernet card did never blink
> under u-boot. (Obviously it is running/blinking on some other Linux PC's).
> Does it mean something informative (except that it doesn't work)...

It may mean anything. For example,  you  might  have  missed  to  add
DC2114x support to your configuration file.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87  Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88  Email: wd at denx.de
If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason,
or a bad reason.  In this case it's a good reason.  :-)
                 - Larry Wall in <1992Jan17.005405.16806 at netlabs.com>