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Re: MPC8xx FEC Ethernet driver bugfixes/improvements
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Wolfgang Heppner <hep at iis dot fhg dot de>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 11 Oct 2002 14:25:33 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] MPC8xx FEC Ethernet driver bugfixes/improvements
- References: <3DA6826F.4E103FA9@iis.fhg.de>
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 01:49, Wolfgang Heppner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am working on a MPC860 based, custom designed board, using the FEC
> Ethernet driver (originally written for the VIPER)
>
> I encountered some problems in the file if_fec.c:
>
> 1. Datacache SYNCS are performed, regardless wether the cache is enabled
> or not.
> 2. The offsetaddress of the FEC-bufferdescriptors is hardcoded in
> if_fec.c.
> For some applications / targets that heavily use internal memory for
> buffers
> or bufferdescriptors, the FEC-BDs can be in the way. It would be
> better to
> define this address in the platform-specific code (like e.g.
> viper_eth.inl)
> 3. Most importand: During initialisation the datacache is disabled but
> not
> re-enabled.
>
I've applied your changes (with a little CDL added).
Thanks.
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