On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:28:52AM -0500, Michael Barkowski wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:16:19AM -0500, Michael Barkowski wrote:
>>> David Gibson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:28AM -0500, Michael Barkowski wrote:
>>>>> ethernet0 (called FSL UEC0 in U-Boot) should be enet1 (UCC3/eth1), and
>>>>> ethernet1 should be enet0 (UCC2/eth0), to be consistent with U-Boot so
>>>>> that the interfaces do not swap addresses when control passes from
>>>>> U-Boot to the kernel.
>>>> Um.. why is just swapping the aliases, rather than the enet labels the
>>>> right approach here?
>>> Kim suggested it was better to localize the port ordering as a
>>> property of the board rather than that of the QE, and I agreed.
>>
>> And the enet0/enet1 names that appear in the labels come from the QE
>> documentation?
>>
> No.. but don't you think the UCC2, UCC3 names, which *do* come from
> the QE documentation, should match their labels in numeric ordering?
> Aren't the aliases just machine-specific shortcuts for the
> bootloader?
Ok, that's reasonable (although personally I would have thought it
would make more sense for the labels to be based on the documentation
terms, so UCC2, UCC3 etc., as we do on 4xx).
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