[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:45:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extend smc911x to support LAN921x chips - differences?
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to support the LAN9215 chip from SMSC under Linux. Of course, there
> is the manufacturer provided smsc911x driver, that supports both chip
> families, but I would prefer to extend the mainline smc911x driver to also
> support 921x. I have both datasheets, they are freely downloadable from
> SMSC site, and I have both drivers, but they are absolutely different. To
> make my decision and the work easier - maybe someone knows from the top of
> their head, what the relevant differences between the chips are?
>
> The vendor driver does not really differentiate between the chips. It does
> read the chip version, and sets the "generation" variable, but then that
> variable is only used once to rule out the oldest chips, which anyway are
> not supported by smc911x. So I tried the in-kernel driver with only added
> chip IDs added, it can access registers, read and write the MAC-address,
> interrupts are generated too, but so far I see nothing on the wire, and
> the PHY reports "link down".
No, I was wrong here, it does detect the link and performs
autonegotiation, that doesn't seem to be the problem... Still, no clue
what's wrong though:-(
Thanks
Guennadi
---
Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists