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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Enable ULi1575 Ethernet support in	8610HPCD config
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:05:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473C8A59.9030209@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071115180247.GA4441@loki.buserror.net>

Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:03:15AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
>>
>>> I intend to keep RTL8139 and Intel EEPR100. They work on the board and
>>> can provide extra choices except the on board Ethernet port. 
> 
> Is there any reason one wouldn't want to use the on-board ethernet port?

Not with this patch.  The only reason to enable all those other boards is 
because the on-board ethernet port *didn't* work, so everyone had to some some 
PCI NIC.

> Hmm, weren't you scrounging around for a certain kind of PCI NIC that
> your 8610 board's u-boot image supported not too long ago?

Yes.  That's because the on-board ethernet was not supported.

> Wouldn't it have been nice if they built in support for a few of
> the most common ones? :-)

And they did.  But now, it's no longer necessary.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 18:49 [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Enable ULi1575 Ethernet support in 8610HPCD config Jon Loeliger
2007-11-13 21:37 ` Ben Warren
2007-11-14 11:47   ` Zang Roy-r61911
2007-11-14 15:09     ` Ben Warren
2007-11-14 15:27 ` Timur Tabi
2007-11-14 15:54   ` Jon Loeliger
2007-11-14 16:04     ` Timur Tabi
2007-11-14 16:09       ` Jon Loeliger
2007-11-14 16:30       ` Stefan Roese
2007-11-14 16:40   ` Timur Tabi
2007-11-15 10:30     ` Zang Roy-r61911
2007-11-15 14:03       ` Timur Tabi
2007-11-15 18:02         ` Scott Wood
2007-11-15 18:05           ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-11-16  6:14             ` Zang Roy-r61911

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