Freescale fec.c driver breakage

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Jun 5 08:48:44 EDT 2012


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.

Sascha


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