[U-Boot] [PATCH v7] net: ll_temac: Add LL TEMAC driver to u-boot

[Stephan Linz]

Am Donnerstag, den 05.01.2012, 17:10 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Denk: 
> Dear Michal Simek,
> 
> In message <4EF2F20B.6050905 at monstr.eu> you wrote:
> >
> > > Are there going to be any users for this code?
> > 
> > Sure. This driver lies out of mainline code for quite some times.
> > ll_temac is IP core which is used by Microblaze and xilinx ppc.
> > There are two options for network IP. The first is emaclite driver
> > which is in the mainline and high speed and especially 1Gb/s LAN ll_temac driver.
> 
> Then let's add it when the first board gets submitted that uses it.

Michals latest Microblaze platform patches will enable this driver for
board/xilinx/microblaze-generic and we know about a success story on a
propietary Virtex5 FX board (ppc440) -- tested by Ricardo Ribalda.

So it could be save to add the driver together with Michals platform
patches. It works fine to me on different ML605 (Virtex 6) and
SP3ADSP1800 (Spartan 3) Microblaze systems but ...

Last week, I received hints from Andy Fleming to improve the PHYLIB
handling and avoid deprecated code. So I'll rework the driver and
present a new v8 patch as soon as possible.


-- 
Best regards,
Stephan Linz
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