[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/85xx: Add support for FMan ethernet in Independent mode

[Kumar Gala]

(just re-sending so Wolfgang is on explicit TO:)

On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> 
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Kumar Gala 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>
>> ---

Wolfgang,

Any issue merging this into 85xx next tree?

[ and the other patches in the series ]

- k