[U-Boot] [PATCH] tegra: paz00: add device tree support

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue May 22 18:58:37 CEST 2012


On 05/22/2012 10:14 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 02:04 AM, Marc Dietrich wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Am Montag, 21. Mai 2012, 14:04:37 schrieb Stephen Warren:
>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> ... to enable USB host support, which enables Ethernet support.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> while adding usb support is fine, I see no reason to add smsc95xx support 
>> because contrary to harmony, paz00 does not contain an ethernet port.
> 
> Is the SMSC95xx only an internal part, or could it be present on a
> user-pluggable USB dongle? I wasn't sure, so I left it in.

Looking at the driver (and the Linux kernel driver and SMSC's website),
it supports both the standalone USB->Ethernet 9500 chip that's likely to
be in USB Ethernet dongles, and various combo USB hub + Ethernet chips
that are found on motherboards (e.g. Harmony). As such, I think it's
reasonable to leave this config option enabled on Paz00 and other Tegra
boards even when such a chip isn't on the board itself. Do you agree?


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