On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Remy Bohmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the Application Notes of the DM9000, only the 2 bits 0:1 of > the status byte need to be checked to identify a valid packet in the fifo > > But, The several different Application Notes do not all speak the same > language on these bits. They do not disagree, but only 1 Application Note > noted explicitly that only these 2 bits need to be checked. > Even the datasheets do not mention anything about these 2 bits. > > Because the old code, and the kernel check the whole byte, I left this piece > untouched. > > However, I tested all board/DM9000[A|E|EP] devices with this 2 bit check, so > it should work. > > Notice, that the 2nd iteration through this receive loop (when a 2nd packet is > in the fifo) is much shorter now, compared to the older U-boot driver code, > so that we can maybe run into a hardware condition now that was never seen > before, or maybe was seen very unfrequently. > > Additionaly added a cleanup of a stack variable. > > Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
Applied to net repo. Thanks! Stefano, please test from the net repo if you can on your Trizeps board. regards, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
