[U-Boot-Users] Microblaze: PULL request

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Aug 6 00:27:45 CEST 2007


In message <fa686aa40708051525g520a414cg588d35a926071012 at mail.gmail.com> 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.

And SG ?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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