[U-Boot-Users] [RFC][PATCH 1/1] Add board_eth_init() function

Haavard Skinnemoen haavard.skinnemoen at atmel.com
Wed Mar 26 11:06:18 CET 2008


On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:04:13 +0100
Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:

> Using Markus's idea, why not use a cpu (platform) specific *and* a board 
> specific init function, both with an empty weak alias in the common eth.c 
> code:
> 
> 	cpu_eth_init(bis);
> 	board_eth_init(bis);

Why?

The whole point about this exercise is to get rid of board-specific
knowledge in the common code. What is the purpose of cpu_eth_init()?

Haavard




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