From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Tom Rini Cc: "Mark A. Greer" , linux-galileo@source.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:05:00 MST." <20020320000500.GV3762@opus.bloom.county> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:28:12 +0100 Message-Id: <20020320002817.6B2F3109F3@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <20020320000500.GV3762@opus.bloom.county> you wrote: > > > > need to change the driver to handle multiple enets, yes? > > > > Only some, like the 8xx. Other configurations run just fine with > > several ethernet interfaces. > > Well yes, but the ones which run fine with several ethernet interfaces > are a) generic drivers (tulip, eepro, et al) and b) just work right now > with multiple devices, and I'm not sure why they'd want to care about > bi_recs. Take the 8260 for an example - it is not a generic driver, and there is no existing solution to pass more than one MAC address. > Me. But it's gotta be made to work sometime. And as a bonus, Linus is > away for 2 weeks so things probably won't get worse than they are right > now for about 2 weeks. :) This is not the way I want to work. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity. The rest is overhead for the operating system. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/