On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 09:24 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:12:02PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > > > > I think ethtool would be good, but what about using sysfs? > > The problem I see with ethtool is that configuring GPIOs (and these > SDPs are really just GPIOs by a different name) is really the job of > the device tree. But of course, most x86 users of the i210 don't have > this option. > > Also, using ethtool or sysfs is not really attractive for embedded > designs (let's not forget the poor embedded guys). I think we need to > have a way to specify the pin functions at (or before) kernel boot > time. Barring DT and kconfig, using a module parameter is the only > way to accomplish this.
On x86 the correct place to put this information would presumably be an ACPI table. And if the BIOS doesn't provide it, there is CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT, though that may be a bit of a sledgehammer... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
