Re: [PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> As of current mainline tree, TULIP driver is unusable on MPC8610HPCD
> boards. There is a patch[1] floating around (and also included in the
> BSP), which tries to heal the situation, though the ethernet is still
> unusable. Practically it takes ages to mount NFS filesystem:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k init
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
>
> So, instead of trying to add uli526x functionality into TULIP driver
> (which is already bloated enough), I fixed existing ULI526X driver
> and now it works perfectly well here.
>
> [1] http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/0024-MPC8610-ETH-Lyra-native-ethernet.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
> ---

applied.

- k