On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Stefan Roese <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Eddie Dawydiuk wrote: >> > I found the ibm_newemac driver(2.6.29) makes the assumption that the >> > bootloader has already configured the tx enable pin as it is a >> > multiplexed pin. Unfortuantley I am not using U-Boot and our minimal >> > bootloader does not do this. After finding tx enable was never >> > asserting for Eth0 a quick user space program verified tx enable was >> > configured as a GPIO pin. >> >> I would like to eventually submit our changes for upstream support. Based >> on this would you recommend ensuring tx enable is configured properly in >> the initialization of the ibm_newemac driver or the platform >> initialization? > > This GPIO multiplexing configuration does not belong into the ibm_newemac > driver since it is very platform/board specific. The platform code is > definitely a better place.
Even better is the platform specific boot code (firmware or equivalent) g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
