[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Enable ULi1575 Ethernet support in 8610HPCD config

[Timur Tabi]

Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:03:15AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
>>
>>> I intend to keep RTL8139 and Intel EEPR100. They work on the board and
>>> can provide extra choices except the on board Ethernet port. 
> 
> Is there any reason one wouldn't want to use the on-board ethernet port?

Not with this patch.  The only reason to enable all those other boards is 
because the on-board ethernet port *didn't* work, so everyone had to some some 
PCI NIC.

> Hmm, weren't you scrounging around for a certain kind of PCI NIC that
> your 8610 board's u-boot image supported not too long ago?

Yes.  That's because the on-board ethernet was not supported.

> Wouldn't it have been nice if they built in support for a few of
> the most common ones? :-)

And they did.  But now, it's no longer necessary.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale