From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:05:13 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Enable ULi1575 Ethernet support in 8610HPCD config In-Reply-To: <20071115180247.GA4441@loki.buserror.net> References: <1194979793.12888.27.camel@ld0161-tx32> <473B13D9.2050400@freescale.com> <473B24EA.1030804@freescale.com> <1195122629.7336.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <473C51A3.7020501@freescale.com> <20071115180247.GA4441@loki.buserror.net> Message-ID: <473C8A59.9030209@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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