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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] FEC: Rework RX buffer init
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:08:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121012130818.09c035eb@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349822613-26137-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de>

Hi Marek,

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:43:33 +0200, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:

> Rework the RX buffer init so that it's easier to understand.
> Firstly, allocate the whole RX buffer as one large continuous
> piece of memory. Also, drop all these writel() accessors used
> on the FEC RX DMA descriptor, since it's all flat bogus.

I'd like this commit message to be more usefully descriptive than "all
flat bogus". What exactly is bogus in it?

> Finally, this makes recoverable stalls of the FEC on i.MX28
> disappear completely.

Are both the single allocation change and the writel() change needed
for this?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-09 22:43 [U-Boot] [PATCH] FEC: Rework RX buffer init Marek Vasut
2012-10-12 11:08 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]

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