netdev - Re: [PATCH 08/33] sfc: Work around unreliable strap pins

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Message-Id: <20081212.213434.250861467.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:34:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/33] sfc: Work around unreliable strap pins

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:51:28 +0000

> The SFC4000 has strap pins indicating the presence of SPI flash and/or
> EEPROM.  These pins are also used for GPIO, and in some cases they may
> be read wrongly at reset.  However, on production boards it must boot
> from one or the other device, so we can assume the boot device is
> present and read the board config from there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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