[PATCH 02/12] fs_enet: Add MPC5121 FEC support.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu May 7 08:39:25 EST 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Scott,
>
> in message <4A01F602.2010601 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>>
>> All of the above is duplicative (with even the same names) of stuff in
>> asm/cpm.h.  Beyond just the duplication, what happens if both CPM2 and
>
> OK, I can try to reuse the definitions from that file.
>
>> 512x are enabled in the same kernel?
>
> Hm... both architectures look sufficiently different to me that I
> don't see sense in trying such a thing. Do you think that needs to be
> supported?

Yes!  :-)  It's not hard to do and it keeps the driver cleaner
(IMNSHO).  I don't think it is quite possible at the moment due to
cache coherency issues, but with Becky's recently merged dma ops
changes it should be fixable.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.



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