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Re: [MiNT] FEC Ethernet driver patch for Coldfires



Thanks Markus. Committed.

Alan.

On 22/02/15 08:20, markus@mubf.de wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> next attempt. I've tried to follow all the valuable advice I got in
> response to my last submission (thanks to all who commented!),
> hopefully this time the FEC patch for the m548x Coldfire boards is as
> expected.
>
> Cheers,
> Markus
>
>
> Am 17.02.2015 um 12:28 schrieb Alan Hourihane:
>> On 15/02/15 09:32, Markus Fröschle wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> please find attached a patch to the Coldfire FEC ethernet driver.
>>> While the Firebee functionality is untouched, it adds a machine
>>> detection (evaluate MCH_ cookie) and initialisation of the Broadcom
>>> bcm5222 ethernet PHY (instead of the am79c874 which is the
>>> corresponding Firebee part) for the m548x eval boards if the machine
>>> found is not a Firebee (Falcon).
>>>
>>> Goal is to make the m548x eval board a "headless MiNT machine".
>>>
>>> The patch could not be tested much (the m548x currently still dies too
>>> soon in the MiNT boot process to really test anything but it seems to
>>> initialise the FEC correctly). I have made sure that Firebee operation
>>> is unaffected by this change.
>>>
>>> The bcm5222.? files need to be added to the sys/sockets/xif/fec dir.
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> Thanks for the patches.
>>
>> Can you address Vincents comments and re-send ?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Alan.
>>
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