[U-Boot] ls1021atwr: Convert to use driver model TSEC driver

[Claudiu Manoil]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bin Meng [mailto:bmeng.cn at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 5:43 AM
>To: York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
>Cc: Alison Wang <alison.wang at nxp.com>; Prabhakar Kushwaha
><prabhakar.kushwaha at nxp.com>; U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>;
>Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil at nxp.com>
>Subject: Re: ls1021atwr: Convert to use driver model TSEC driver
>
>Hi Claudiu,
>
>On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:28 PM, York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com> wrote:
>> On 06/10/2018 10:37 PM, Bin Meng wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Alison, Prabhakar,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 12:06 PM, York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com> wrote:
>>>>> On May 31, 2018, at 20:58, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:06 AM, York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
>wrote:
>>>>>>> Alison and Prabhakar,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please take a look at the mentioned patch.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would you please take the patch and update all LS1021A boards? thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bin,
>>>>>
>>>>> I expect LS1021A board maintainers to chime in.
>>>>
>>>> Would you please comment on this? Thanks!
>>>
>>> Ping ...
>>>
>>
>> Bin,
>>
>> Our TSEC driver owner Claudiu Manoil (CC'ed) plans to work on the
>> driver a while later.
>
>Do you have ETA of the DM ETH conversion for LS1021ATWR board?
>

Hi,
No ETA right now. There's not only the LS1021ATRW board, there are also a lot of 
legacy PowerPC platforms that would have to be converted too. All the platforms
featuring the TSEC h/w will have to be verified as well. Converting the TSEC driver
to work only for the ls1 twr board will break the other platforms.
Is there a urgent need to move to the new DM ETH model? Ensuring backward
compatibility, not breaking legacy platforms is the most important part here and
I don't have the bandwidth to do that right now.

Thanks,
Claudiu