Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] ARM: davinci: da850: configure system configurationchip(CFGCHIP3) for emac

From: Sekhar Nori
Date: Mon Feb 04 2013 - 00:29:10 EST


On 2/3/2013 6:15 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 7:17 PM, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
>> From: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.lad@xxxxxx>

> There are couple of issues with this implementation.
>
> 1) da8xx_config_emac() is specific to DA850 EVM, but masquerades as
> generic for da8xx. Looks like you need two functions, one for soc
> specific configuration and one board specific.
> 2) da8xx_config_emac() goes through all the time, whether the
> particular board has emac module or not. Shouldn't
> da8xx_config_emac() check if emac is actually enabled in the passed
> dtb and only the do the configuration?
> 3) The function assumes mii is used always, you can use the rmii_en dt
> property to check if rmii/mii is enabled and configure the soc/board
> accordingly.
> 4) If the same function can work both for da850 and da830, then it can
> be implemented outside of CONFIG_ARCH_DAVINCI_DA850.

Another thing I forgot to mention:

5) This patch replicates a lot of code form board-da850-evm.c. This
needs to be avoided. May be create function to configure emac in
da850.c. This can then be called in board-da850-evm.c as well as in the
dt case.

Thanks,
Sekhar
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