Kim Phillips wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:08:43 -0600 > Steven Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a custom board with an MPC8358 (our board is based >> off of the MPC8360E-MDS development board) that has its eth's >> directly connected (GMII) to a Broadcom network switch >> part on the same board, with no PHYs between them. >> We've have been using a 2.6.16.18 kernel (from TimeSys) up >> until now, and I hacked in some crude support for no-phy >> configs forced to 100Mbit and 1Gbit speeds. Now I'm >> moving to 2.6.22 (with 8360 the patches from bitshrine.org), >> and I'm trying to understand how I should do this with >> device trees, the new PHY infrastructure, etc. Has anyone >> else needed this support? Does anyone have any suggestions >> as to how to tackle it? >> > > check out the "fixed-link" property and associated code. This > implementation came about after 2.6.22 though (it's commit-ish > v2.6.23-10096-ga21e282). > > Kim > Thanks for the pointer Kim! Using the "fixed-link" property code already in the tree, and adding the glue in ucc_geth.c to use it (modeled after the code in gianfar fix-link support in fsl_soc.c), I was able to get this working with me 8360 board.
Is there a document anywhere that describes how to submit patches for the powerpc kernel? Or do I just create the patch (I'm learning about git right now...) again the paulus/powerpc.git tree, and send it to this list? Thanks, Steve -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Hein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Engineering Diagnostics/Software Silicon Graphics, Inc. 1168 Industrial Blvd. Phone: (715) 726-8410 Chippewa Falls, WI 54729 Fax: (715) 726-6715 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
