[U-Boot] Micrel Controller KSZ8841-16MBL

[Steve Sakoman]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Douglas Lopes Pereira
<douglaslopespereira at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve.
> Did you succeed on running the driver for KS8841? Did you have to change
> anything?
> We are debugging it and some modifications might be necessary for our
> platform.

Well, after taking a  look at the KS8841 driver it didn't look like
the KS8851 was software compatible.

I'm waiting for a response from Micrel regarding their sample KS8851
u-boot driver code.  After I hear back from them I'll put together
some sort of plan, but things are on hold till they respond.

Steve


> Hope to hear from you.
> Regards,
> Douglas
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Steve Sakoman <sakoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Ben Warren <biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > A few years ago I wrote a driver for KS8841 and got it working (16-bit
>> > memory-mapped on PowerPC).  I started with the Micrel driver, but as you
>> > know it's pretty ugly.  Last week I dusted off that old driver and got
>> > it to
>> > compile with the latest U-boot, but wasn't able to test it because the
>> > company that I worked for is long gone.  It's hopefully close to
>> > functional,
>> > but still has too many style issues to post publicly.  I sent the driver
>> > to
>> > Douglas off-line, and am awaiting feedback.  If you'd like, I can send
>> > it to
>> > you too.  It'd be nice to have a single driver that handles different
>> > chips,
>> > but with configurable accessors.
>>
>> Yes, please send me a copy!  I'll take a look and see if it looks like
>> it will work with the 8851.
>>
>> I agree it would be quite nice if we could have a single driver.
>>
>> Steve
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