Re: [PATCH] stmmac: Add device-tree support

On Wednesday 14 March 2012, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:

On 3/12/2012 3:38 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

quoted

On 15:05 Mon 12 Mar     , Stefan Roese wrote:

quoted

This patch adds support to configure the STMMAC ethernet driver via
device-tree instead of platform_data.

Currently, only the properties needed on SPEAr600 are provided. All
other properties should be added once needed on other platforms.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <redacted>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <redacted>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt   |   38 +++++++++++
 .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c  |   66 +++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..386a47f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/stmmac.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+* STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (GMAC)
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Should be "stm,gmac"

quoted

this IP have 2 version at least the GMAC for the second generation and mac for
the first generation

yes you are right. STMMAC supports two device generations I named:
dwma10/100 and dwmac1000 (gmac).

Concerning the latter, we support several different versions of the
synopsys GMAC cores ... from 3.30 to 3.61a.

For example, stx7108 and Stx7109 have the same GMAC core (also SPEAr600
IIRC).
SPEAr13xx has 3.50a
New ST SoC Stxh415 has the 3.60a. etc.

In that case, you should definitely list the exact device versions in the
compatible string, like:

compatible = "stm,spear600-gmac", "snps,dw-gmac-3.50a", "snps,dw-gmac";

When we have other socs with the same version, that lets us add quirks
for the specific version by checking the compatible property once in the
driver.

It also sounds to me that the entire stmmac driver should live in the
drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys directory, not stmicro, but that is a
different issue.


	Arnd