EMAC OF binding....

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Tue Jan 30 11:54:47 EST 2007


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:45:30PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 07:38 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>  - compatible        : compatible list, contains 2 entries, first is
> >>> "emac-CHIP" where
> >>>                        CHIP is the host ASIC (440gx, 405gp, axon)  
> >>> and
> >>> second is either
> >>>                        "emac" or "emac4".
> >>>                        For axon, thus, we have: "emac-axon","emac4"
> >>
> >> "ibm,emac-axon" etc. please.
> >
> > What would you do for things like 440gx ? ibm,440gx or amcc,440gx ?
> 
> Does emac really vary that much between the chips its in?  I know  
> chatting with Ben that axon did some evil things, but how much  
> difference exists on 4xx implementations?

Very little, I think, but I believe the idea is to include the
detailed information, just in case in future we discover some errata
or other peculiarities in one chip's version of emac.

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