[PATCH 2/2] PowerPC: Fix Sequoia MAL0 and EMAC dts entries.

Valentine Barshak vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Fri Sep 21 04:55:54 EST 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:46:18 +0400
> Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> 
>> Valentine Barshak wrote:
>>> David Gibson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:29:13PM +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote:
>>>>> According to PowerPC 440EPx documentation,
>>>>> MAL0 is comprised of four channels (two transmit and two receive).
>>>>> Each channel is dedicated to one of two EMAC cores.
>>>>> This patch fixes Sequoia DTS MAL0 entry and EMAC entries,
>>>>> assigning correct channel numbers to EMACs.
>>>> Hrm.. did they change the EMAC in 440EPx to only use one MAL
>>>> tx-channel?  All the older ones could use two (for no readily apparent
>>>> reason, IMO).
>>>>
>>> Yes, they did.
>>> Just 1 tx and 1 rx-channel per EMAC. Just 2 bits to select channels, 
>>> while all other bits in MAL registers are reserved.
>>> I'm not sure why they did it (possible bus bandwidth problems), but it's 
>>> impossible to set more than 1 rx/tx channel for each EMAC in 440EPx.
>> Josh, David, is this patch OK?
> 
> Yeah.  I applied it to my tree and asked Paul to pull.  Same for the
> Bamboo one.
> 
> josh
OK thanks :)



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