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From: gerg@snapgear•com (Greg Ungerer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Freescale fec.c driver breakage
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 23:24:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCE088D.1060604@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120605124844.GR30400@pengutronix.de>

On 06/05/2012 10:48 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:17:02PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>
>>> clkdev
>>> provides an abstraction which can map these onto the platform, even if
>>> you don't use the generic clk API clkdev is still very useful and will
>>> help with a lot of these issues.
>>
>> In this specific case I don't know what the ipg or ahb clocks are on iMX
>> (Sascha?), but there is nothing equivalent to them in the FEC cores used
>> on existing ColdFire CPUs. They seem to be platform specific (iMX) more
>> than FEC driver specific.
>
> I am sure the Coldfire FEC also needs clocks to work. Just like Mark
> said, they may be not software controllable. The names 'ipg' and 'ahb'
> may be i.MX specific though.

Well, yeah, of course there are clocks involved. But you pretty much
hit the point here. 'ipg' and 'ahb' here are platform specific.

Regards
Greg


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-05 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04  4:42 Freescale fec.c driver breakage Greg Ungerer
2012-06-04  8:19 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-06-04  9:16   ` Mark Brown
2012-06-05  6:55     ` Greg Ungerer
2012-06-05  9:41       ` Mark Brown
2012-06-05 12:17         ` Greg Ungerer
2012-06-05 12:24           ` Mark Brown
2012-06-05 12:36             ` Greg Ungerer
2012-06-05 12:40               ` Mark Brown
2012-06-05 12:48           ` Sascha Hauer
2012-06-05 13:24             ` Greg Ungerer [this message]
2012-06-05 13:41               ` Mark Brown
2012-06-05 14:35                 ` Steven King
2012-06-06  7:41                   ` Greg Ungerer
2012-06-07 23:36                     ` Mark Brown
2012-06-05 13:42               ` Sascha Hauer

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