On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:24:20AM -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:04:11PM +0000, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >I am a bit bewildered by what you are doing here. How does this mv64x60 > > > >code relate to the mv643xx_eth driver from the mips folk ? > > > > [...] > > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:28:56AM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > > > has spent a lot of time making it work on both MIPS and PPC. The code > > > you see in the mv64x60.c file is a part of that. I believe that Dale's > > > > Ok, so the code in question is in addition to the existing driver from the > > mips guys and works with it ? I had the impression that it was a separate > > driver development or something. > > The code in mv64x60.c is related to but separate from the ethernet driver. > It is platform-specific code that passes register addresses, irqs, > mac addrs, phy addrs, etc. to the arch-agnostic ethernet driver. > > All of my changes to the mv643xx ethernet driver have been posted to > LKML or the netdev list. I have removed all arch-specific code from > the ethernet driver itself.
What is the status of this with regard to the 2.6.11 mainline kernel ? > > Ok. Do you know if Dale's patches are available separatedly while they are > > not > > yet in mainline, so Nicolas Det can work on them and make sure they also > > work > > on the Pegasos board, which is not an embedded board but from the chrp > > See bk://dfarnsworth.bkbits.net/linux-2.5-mv643xx-enet I guess i need to look there, as in mainline 2.6.11, there doesn't seem to be direct related code between the ppc specific mv64x60 stuff, and the mips related ethernet one. > > lineage. Nicolas already did some mv643xx ethernet driver work last summer, > > but apparently had trouble integrating this in the mainline kernel, and it > > I'm sorry I wasn't aware of Nicolas' work on the driver. > > > seems his work has now been redone by Dale or something. Do you know who the > > right person to communicate with about this would be ? The MIPS folk didn't > > reply to any of our mails about this subject. > > Sounds familiar. Fortunately, Jeff Garzik picked up my changes. > I would appreciate feedback from you or Nicolas on the current driver. Well, as i am doing the powerpc debian 2.6.11 kernel, i really would like to port your work to the pegasos, but what i have seen from the code in the mainline kernel doesn't really make sense. Friendly, Sven Luther
