Get new_emac driver running on 405EP

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 16 11:43:54 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 23:51 +0200, Markus Brunner wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > 2) On the 405EP only the MDIO pin of the emac0 is pinned out, so both
> > > phys have to be accessed through this one. This affectes the mdio
> > > read/write functions.
> >
> > The later can easily be described in the device-tree as it's a fairly
> > common setup.
> 
> mdio-device does the trick. This feature wasn't used by any other board in the 
> kernel yet.
> 
> I made another error. I did mix up the order of the MAL irqs, so the irq 
> handlers went mad. This was detected as a soft lock-up.
> 
> After correcting that both emacs are working on ppc405EP :).

Cool.  Btw, new board ports are welcome :).

josh




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