[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 1/3] sunxi: backport the stmmac driver from kernel 4.13

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 09/29/2017 09:12 AM, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote:
> In article <20170928214945.13510-1-hauke at hauke-m.de> you wrote:
>> This adds support for the GMAC which is use in the A64 and other
>> Allwinner chips by backporting the changes from the kernel versions
>> 4.13.
> 
> Why this part only for sunxi? It's should land in generic, ipq8064 uses stmmac too.

I added it only for sunxi, because this needs extra testing on the other
platforms like ipq806x, archs38, arc770, pistachio and oxnas. I do not
have devices for most of these targets so testing is hard for me and I
would not be surprised if I would break some of them.

I also think it does not bring a big advantage to these targets, I added
it to sunxi because the new version adds support for the controller used
in newer Allwinner SoCs, without this patch Ethernet is not working at all.

Hauke