Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:22 -0400, Ben Warren wrote:
>   
>> Stefan Roese wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 22 March 2008, Ben Warren wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>>  All I'm asking for is to make sure that this can be configured  in  a
>>>>>  board  specific  way.  If  there  is a zensible default setting which
>>>>>  covers most cases without need for board-specific stuff  that's  just
>>>>>  all the better.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> How about something like this:
>>>>
>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_ETH_INIT_DEFAULT
>>>>         CFG_ETH_INIT_DEFAULT(bis);
>>>> #else
>>>>         board_eth_init(bis);
>>>> #endif
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Using Markus's idea, why not use a cpu (platform) specific *and* a board 
>>> specific init function, both with an empty weak alias in the common eth.c 
>>> code:
>>>
>>>     cpu_eth_init(bis);
>>>     board_eth_init(bis);
>>>   
>>>       
>> I thought about this some more, and the problem is that cpu_eth_init() and 
>> board_eth_init()
>> are mutually exclusive, with board_eth_init() having a higher priority.
>> I think the following will work, but would appreciate some feedback.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> int board_eth_init(bd_t *bis) __attribute(weak);
>> int cpu_eth_init(bd_t *bis) __attribute(weak);
>>
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>> if (board_eth_init)
>>      board_eth_init(bis);
>> else if (cpu_eth_init)
>>      cpu_eth_init(bis);
>>
>> -----
>>
>> This gets rid of the pointless aliases and gives precedence to the 
>> board-specific initialization.
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Ben
>>     
>
> I think you must enable full relocation, CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS, to
> make the "if (board_eth_init)" work. This is just a guess though.
>
>   Jocke
>
>   
Nothing a little testing can't figure out.

thanks,
Ben

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