[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/85xx: Add support for FMan ethernet in Independent mode

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Aug 1 12:16:57 CEST 2011


Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <1312179825-27917-1-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> The Frame Manager (FMan) on QorIQ SoCs with DPAA (datapath acceleration
> architecture) is the ethernet contoller block.  Normally it is utilized
> via Queue Manager (Qman) and Buffer Manager (Bman).  However for boot
> usage the FMan supports a mode similar to QE or CPM ethernet collers
> called Independent mode.
> 
> Additionally the FMan block supports multiple 1g and 10g interfaces as a
> single entity in the system rather than each controller being managed
> uniquely.  This means we have to initialize all of Fman regardless of
> the number of interfaces we utilize.
> 
> Different SoCs support different combinations of the number of FMan as
> well as the number of 1g & 10g interfaces support per Fman.
> 
> We add support for the following SoCs:
>  * P1023 - 1 Fman, 2x1g
>  * P4080 - 2 Fman, each Fman has 4x1g and 1x10g
>  * P204x/P3041/P5020 - 1 Fman, 5x1g, 1x10g
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dai Haruki <dai.haruki at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lei Xu <B33228 at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mingkai Hu <Mingkai.hu at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <b21989 at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>

checkpatch says:

total: 8 errors, 3 warnings, 3172 lines checked

Please clean up.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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