Thread (16 messages) flat view 16 messages, 4 authors, 2012-06-07

Freescale fec.c driver breakage

From: Greg Ungerer <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-06 07:41:08

On 06/06/12 00:35, Steven King wrote:
On Tuesday 05 June 2012 6:41:16 am Mark Brown wrote:
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:24:29PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
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Well, yeah, of course there are clocks involved. But you pretty much
hit the point here. 'ipg' and 'ahb' here are platform specific.
What should be happening for that is that the driver requests with some
generic name which is referenced to the IP (unfortunately these are
usually not documented for the public...) and then clkdev or some
platform specific code is used to map the names onto the underlying
clocks.

If 'ahb' isn't suitable how about 'bus', and for 'ipg' how about 'mclk'
or something?
Some of the newer Coldfire parts such as the m54455/m5441x do have software
controllable clocks; but they keep it simple with one clock per fec, and
names in the documentation like 'fec0, fec1' for the m54455
and 'macnet0,macnet1' for the m5441x.
Most of the older ones don't. Most of the older parts that have a FEC
core have a single clock-in for the chip, possibly a PLL and often a
fixed divisor for distribuion to all on-chip peripherals. I have seen it
named various names, 'bclko', 'mclk', "fsys/2", nothing seems consistent.

I think very generic namse might be the best solution here.

Regards
Greg


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