netdev - Re: Keystone 2 boards boot failure

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:13:48 -0800
From:	santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:	Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Franklin S Cooper Jr." <fcooper@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, w-kwok2@...com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Keystone 2 boards boot failure

On 2/3/2016 10:47 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 12:08 PM, santosh shilimkar wrote:
>> On 2/3/2016 8:35 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

[..]

>>> It would be nice to give this a go once the network driver problem
>>> is solved.
>>>
>> Big endian kernel has worked on Keystone in past.
>
> Yes, this was on a v3.10.x baseline, not in the upstream.
>
Thats what I mean in past. That time upstream didn't have
ARM BE patches o.w there was no other depedency.

>> Yes, above secondary hook needs to be modified along with
>> drivers endian macro conversion was what was needed IIRC.
>>
>
> To support BE, it may be more than Netcp driver. Do you recall, what
> changes you did to get BE working on Keystone? Is it just NetCP driver?
>
IIRC it was Navigator (QMSS, DMA), NETCP, SPI and couple of
of more drivers. Driver update was a massive patch done by Prabhu.

Regards,
Santosh