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

Zang Roy-R61911 tie-fei.zang at freescale.com
Mon Jun 8 05:14:28 CEST 2009


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 18:16 PM
> To: Zang Roy-R61911
> Cc: Srinivasan Srikanth-R9AABP; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Support in u-boot for PCI-Express NIC
> 
> Dear "Zang Roy-R61911",
> 
> In message 
> <7DF0AF56456B8F4081E3C44CCCE311DE34EEE4 at zch01exm23.fsl.freesca
> le.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.
I have began to port e1000 pcie driver to u-boot. 82572EI is used for
this work. 
I just curious that is there anyone else in this list to do the similar
work previously. 
Roy


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