[U-Boot] [U-Boot, 3/3] pcnet: force ordering of descriptor accesses
Tom Rini
trini at ti.com
Fri Apr 18 23:02:05 CEST 2014
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 04:41:48PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote:
> The ordering of accesses to the rx & tx descriptors is important, yet
> the send & recv functions accessed them via regular structure accesses.
> This leaves the compiler with the opportunity to reorder those accesses
> or to hoist them outside of loops. Prevent that from happening by using
> readl & writel to access the descriptors. As a nice bonus, this removes
> the need for the driver to care about endianness.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton at imgtec.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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