[U-Boot-Users] Microblaze: PULL request

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Aug 6 00:25:11 CEST 2007


On 8/5/07, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> In message <0a6b01c7d77e$905d8e50$0500a8c0 at monstrone> you wrote:
> >
> > Emac is supported without DMA support. I plan to add support for simple and
> > scatter gather DMA too.
>
> Why do we need such complexity in U-Boot? U-Boot is a boot loader...

The EMAC is a funny thing.  If the FPGA design includes EMAC DMA, then
programmed IO no longer works.

g.

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