[U-Boot-Users] [RFC][PATCH 1/1] Add board_eth_init() function

Wolfgang Denk
2008-03-22T09:59:56Z

In message <200803220731.23229.sr@denx.de> you wrote:
>
> I would prefer to move this init code not into the board code but into the
> platform/cpu code. Speaking for PPC4xx, here all configuration I know of have
> the same init code. And copying this into all board ports instead on one
> place in the cpu directory seems "imperfect".

But the ethernet configuration *is* actually bord dependent. A board
may or may not use all the ethernet interfaces present on a
processor, or it may have additional network controllers attached for
example to the PCI bus, etc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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