Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.6 running on ML403
David H. Lynch Jr.
dhlii at dlasys.net
Wed Sep 20 06:40:50 EST 2006
Grant Likely wrote:
>
>
> Avast! After getting quizzed on IRC about this off-the-cuff comment,
> I should probably clarify. Since the Xilinx IP could be wired up to a
> ublaze core or an off-chip processor, the drivers still need to use a
> platform bus attachment to keep it all cross platform.
>
> So, replace above comment with the following:
>
> Populating the platform device with static code during initialization
> is sooo last year.
>
> Time to hack device trees to populate it instead.
>
So I got another X V4 board. I hacked in the Platform device stuff
from you ml403 code with changes needed for my hardware.
and my brain is slowly begining to actually grasp what is going on
- I am begining to grasp the platform devices big picture (over a
mountain through a spyglass in the fog)
Where do I begin with Device Trees ?
The vague Picture I have is the have something to do with some
datastructure that Mac's typically create at or prior to boot. And that
for embedded systems we are building them
externally compiling them and then attaching the compiled device
tree to our project.
I got a Xilinv V4 device currently with a Pic, UartLite, TEMAC,
Flash and Keyhole (pseuodo serial host interface). Of those it is only
certain that the flash will always be there.
We have bit images with Keyhole only, Uartlite only TEMAC only,
Sometimes we have a Pic sometimes not. I was trying to get to the point
were I could dynamically add what was there
to Platform devices during initialization.
If Device trees are static, then do they even apply to what I have
to deal with ?
Please pardon my ignorance.
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Dave Lynch DLA Systems
Software Development: Embedded Linux
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