[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add support for new AVR32 board

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:30:35 -0500
"Andy Fleming" <afleming at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hm.  I have a patch to clean up tsec initialization a bit.  I'm
> wondering how this affects the tsec (and my patch).  And there are
> other issues with calling the function something generic like that.
> The Freescale SOCs have 2 or more (I think we have 5 on one of our
> chips) TSEC devices.  How do you deal with separating out multiple
> controllers?

Put multiple calls to the chip-specific init function in
board_eth_initialize()

> Also, won't this break if you have more than one type of controller on a board?

No, just make any sort of chip-specific init calls you need from
board_eth_initialize().

The idea behind board_eth_initialize() is, if I get this correctly:
  * All board-specific knowledge (number and type of controllers, etc.)
    is contained within it.
  * It has the same name and signature on all boards, so we don't need
    a gazillion #ifdefs in net/eth.c
  * New boards don't need to patch anything under net/, so the
    probability of conflicts is reduced.

Haavard