What ethernet driver to use in 2.6.8.1 instead of gianfar in 2.6.11.x?

What ethernet driver to use in 2.6.8.1 instead of gianfar in 2.6.11.x?

[Clemens Koller]

Hello, again,

for some tests and glibc-builds I want to work with a 2.6.8.1 kernel
temporarily on a freescale mpc8540.

In 2.6.8.1 there was no gianfar ethernet driver. Is it okay to use the
fec drivers instead of the gianfar or is it better to put the gianfar
drivers back into 2.6.8.1? (100Mbps are okay for that testing)

Maybe somebody can get me a working .config for 2.6.8.1 and mpc8540ads?

Thanks in advance,

Clemens Koller
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Re: What ethernet driver to use in 2.6.8.1 instead of gianfar in 2.6.11.x?

[Kumar Gala]

On May 17, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:

> Hello, again,
>
> for some tests and glibc-builds I want to work with a 2.6.8.1 kernel
>  temporarily on a freescale mpc8540.

Out of interest, what issues did you have with 2.6.11.x?

> In 2.6.8.1 there was no gianfar ethernet driver. Is it okay to use the
>  fec drivers instead of the gianfar or is it better to put the gianfar
>  drivers back into 2.6.8.1? (100Mbps are okay for that testing)

I doubt fec drivers would ever work for the TSECs.  You should be able 
to pull the driver code out of 2.6.11.x for gianfar back into 2.6.8.1 
w/o any real issue.

> Maybe somebody can get me a working .config for 2.6.8.1 and mpc8540ads?

Can you start with the .config file that exists in the 2.6.11 ?

- kumar

Re: What ethernet driver to use in 2.6.8.1 instead of gianfar in 2.6.11.x?

[Clemens Koller]

Hello, Kumar!

 >> for some tests and glibc-builds I want to work with a 2.6.8.1 kernel
 >>  temporarily on a freescale mpc8540.
 >
 > Out of interest, what issues did you have with 2.6.11.x?

I want to see if I can get more details out of failing glibc-2.3.{4,5} ntpl
tests on a running system. That's not related to anything mpc85xx specific.

I'll take the gianfar if necessary.
(Or I just plug a rtl8139 into pci... and go with that)
The .config is not an issue, then. Thanks!

Greets,

Clemens Koller
_______________________________
R&D Imaging Devices
Anagramm GmbH
Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1
81379 Muenchen
Germany

http://www.anagramm.de
Phone: +49-89-741518-50
Fax: +49-89-741518-19


Kumar Gala wrote:
>> In 2.6.8.1 there was no gianfar ethernet driver. Is it okay to use the
>>  fec drivers instead of the gianfar or is it better to put the gianfar
>>  drivers back into 2.6.8.1? (100Mbps are okay for that testing)
> 
> 
> I doubt fec drivers would ever work for the TSECs.  You should be able 
> to pull the driver code out of 2.6.11.x for gianfar back into 2.6.8.1 
> w/o any real issue.
> 
>> Maybe somebody can get me a working .config for 2.6.8.1 and mpc8540ads?
> 
> 
> Can you start with the .config file that exists in the 2.6.11 ?
> 
> - kumar
> 
>