Hi Ben, On 07/01/2009 10:02 PM, Ben Warren wrote: > Hi Darius, > > Darius Augulis wrote: >> On 07/01/2009 09:12 PM, Richard Retanubun wrote: >>> Darius Augulis wrote: >>>> On 07/01/2009 03:37 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote: >>>>> Darius Augulis wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I need to control RGMII PHY connected to GPIO. >>>>>> Seems there isn't such driver in u-boot. >>>>>> I would like to discuss how is better to implement this? >>>>>> I could port mdio_gpio driver from Linux Kernel, >>>>>> but u-boot does not have universal gpio driver. >>>>>> Off course I could make this very board specific, but It may be >>>>>> useful for >>>>>> other boards, interfacing PHY with GPIO's. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any ideas welcome! >>>>>> >>>>>> Darius A. >>>>> It sounds like you are looking for CONFIG_BITBANGMII. >>>> Probably. Even it has MPC specific things, I guess should be easy to >>>> re-use it in my system. >>> Wow, what a coincidence! >>> Just in case you system is MPC83XX based, I just submitted a patch >>> for consideration >>> that adds bitbang SMI to uec_phy.c<stolen from gvb's implementation, >>> of course> >> > It sure would be nice to see a patch that gets the CPU-specific crap out > of the miiphybb driver. This type of problem has been dealt with in > other places such as I2C and SPI. Any takers? >> No, my system is not MPC based. I'm working on new board and CPU >> (Gemini) support in u-boot. My SoC has two GMAC controllers. >> btw, what is the right way to add new Ethernet driver? >> Should I define CONFIG_CMD_NET and CONFIG_NET_MULTI in my board config? >> Or should I define eth_* funtions right in the driver code? >> > I'm looking forward to your submission. > > As Richard mentioned, CONFIG_CMD_NET enables networking. > > CONFIG_NET_MULTI really means "use the networking code that supports > multiple interfaces". It doesn't mean "my board has more than one > interface". Going forward, this is mandatory for all Ethernet drivers. > Support for the old-style API (eth_* in drivers) is deprecated and is > scheduled for removal this fall: > > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt;h=9bbdc0a83226aa1158ddd73d253e4742c0124159;hb=HEAD
thank you for this information. I will add CONFIG_NET_MULTI temporary in my board, and will remove for 2009-11 release. Darius. > > > regards, > Ben > > > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot