[U-Boot] AT91RM9200 deprecated Ethernet driver

[U-Boot] AT91RM9200 deprecated Ethernet driver

[Jens Scharsig]

Hello,

at current git all AT91RM9200 based boards have the "Ethernet driver is deprecated" warning. 
I have read anywhere, there are plans to join the AT91 and the 9200 driver.
Is there someone work on this or will AT91RM9200 driver ported in soon.

We wanted to publish a new board without the deprecated drivers

Best regards

Jens Scharsig

[U-Boot] AT91RM9200 deprecated Ethernet driver

[Ben Warren]

Hi Jens,

Jens Scharsig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> at current git all AT91RM9200 based boards have the "Ethernet driver is deprecated" warning. 
> I have read anywhere, there are plans to join the AT91 and the 9200 driver.
> Is there someone work on this or will AT91RM9200 driver ported in soon.
>
>   
I don't have any familiarity with either of these, but a cursory 
inspection shows me that most AT91 chips use the MACB driver.  I don't 
see much in similarities between the MACB driver and the 9200 driver, so 
don't know if joining them makes sense.  I don't remember any discussion 
about this - can you send a pointer?

Is there a chance that you can port the AT91RM9200 driver to the 
NET_MULTI API?  Mike Frysinger just submitted a document detailing the 
process (doc/README.drivers.eth)  I've done this with several drivers 
and it's not very hard.
> We wanted to publish a new board without the deprecated drivers
>
> Best regards
>
> Jens Scharsig
>
> _

regards,
Ben

[U-Boot] AT91RM9200 deprecated Ethernet driver

[Jens Scharsig]

Hi Ben,
>>   
> I don't have any familiarity with either of these, but a cursory 
> inspection shows me that most AT91 chips use the MACB driver.  I don't 
> see much in similarities between the MACB driver and the 9200 driver, so 
> don't know if joining them makes sense.  I don't remember any discussion 
> about this - can you send a pointer?
> 

I don't remember where exactly discussed this. 

> Is there a chance that you can port the AT91RM9200 driver to the 
> NET_MULTI API?  Mike Frysinger just submitted a document detailing the 
> process (doc/README.drivers.eth)  I've done this with several drivers 
> and it's not very hard.

I think I will try this, but I need a lot of time. 
I'm caught in a another project.

Best regards

Jens Scharsig