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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Question: Information regarding MII and PHY
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:23:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109222123.08411.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALButC+UtA6MDh8fEED-iPab=Avh_RK1RxDyBn9bMek94cLHVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 20:17:33 Graeme Russ wrote:
> 2) The Linux network driver framework (at least now) is so
>    massive that porting a network driver over is practically impossible.
>    Is the U-Boot network driver framework similar in any way to the Linux
>    framework such that I can take relevant portions of code straight from
>    a Linux driver, or is it a case of carefully picking out the relevant
>    bits and stitching together a entirely new beast?

the net drivers in u-boot tend to be pretty thin because we're single 
threaded.  so the Linux drivers are good to see it setting up the hardware 
registers, but that's about it.

> 3) Any idea what would be one of the most recent network drivers added
>    from scratch to U-Boot that would serve as a 'style guide' for my new
>    driver?

look at doc/README.drivers.eth.  this should cover the eth layer (not PHY).
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-22  1:20 [U-Boot] Question: Information regarding MII and PHY Graeme Russ
2011-09-22  3:12 ` Graeme Russ
2011-09-22 22:21   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-22 23:06     ` Graeme Russ
2011-09-22 23:27     ` Graeme Russ
2011-09-22 23:36       ` Andy Fleming
2011-09-23  0:17         ` Graeme Russ
2011-09-23  1:23           ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2011-09-27 16:32           ` Andy Fleming
2011-09-22 23:30 ` Andy Fleming

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