Linux LLTEmac Flat
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This driver will be the path of choice in the future for new work by Xilinx.
Supported Platforms
This driver currently only functions on the PowerPC 440 processor as it uses DCR to access the DMA. We hope that will change soon as shown in the Outstanding Patches section below.
Features
- Flat such that it was accepted into the mainline.
- Uses the PHY lib layer of the kernel such that it should work better on other boards that have different phys.
- Uses non-cached buffer descriptors (simpler).
Unsupported Features
- Does not currently have support for the PowerPC 405 and MicroBlaze, but an outstanding patch should fix that.
- Does not support checksum offload yet. Some recent prototyping in this area suggests that checksum offload for the LL TEMAC in Linux doesn't really make much difference in throughput.
Device Tree Changes
This driver requires a phy to be added to the LL TEMAC device tree entry. The device tree generator from Xilinx is not creating this yet. Note the phy address must be correct as this address below works for the ML507 and ML405 Xilinx boards.Code Block | ||
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phy-handle = < &&phy7 >;
phy7: phy@7 {
reg = <7>;
}; |