[U-Boot] Support in u-boot for PCI-Express NIC

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jun 5 12:16:13 CEST 2009


Dear "Zang Roy-R61911",

In message <7DF0AF56456B8F4081E3C44CCCE311DE34EEE4 at zch01exm23.fsl.freescale.net> you wrote:
> 
> > > > At least the e1000 has been successfully tested not so long ago.
> > > 
> > > Thanks Wolfgang. That's good news. 
> > > Can you pl point me to the pci-express card/device id that 
> > was tested
> > > recently (and/or the mails that talk about it)?
> > 
> > I think that was it:
> > 
> > commit aa3b8bf9c30065bb2ea852799d32db5020598495
> > Author: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at grandegger.com>
> > Date:   Wed May 28 19:55:19 2008 +0200
> > 
> >     E1000: Add support for the 82541GI LF Intel Pro 1000 GT Desktop
> >     Adapter
> 82541 is pci based e1000 silicon.  For pcie based e1000 chip, extra code
> is needed.

You are right, my memory was wrong. The testing I remembered was done
under Linux only for this very reason.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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