[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/7] fec_imx27: driver for FEC ethernet controller on i.MX27

[Fabio Estevam]

--- On Sun, 6/7/09, Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com> wrote:

> From: Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/7] fec_imx27: driver for FEC ethernet controller on i.MX27
> To: "Ben Warren" <biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 8:08 PM
> Hi Ben,
> 
> thanks for the review.
> 
> Ben Warren wrote:
> > Naive question: Is this FEC truly unique to the
> iMX27?  If not you
> > should pick a more generic name.
> 
> Uh... I think the hardware is pretty the same as that is
> handled by
> mcffec.c driver but merging won't be very easy...

There are other i.MX processors with FEC. As Ben pointed out I also think it would be better if you could use a more generic name for the FEC driver (fec_mxc for example, if the merge with the Coldfire driver is not easy)

Regards,

Fabio Estevam