[PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: Ensure that kirkwood_ge0[01]_init() finds its clock

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Mon Jan 28 13:28:18 EST 2013


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

> I just want Simon to confirm that Kirkwood's gbe is really loosing the
> contents of its MAC address registers during gated clocks, which is from
> a HW point of view very unlikely.

FWIW, there are two block power management controls on the kirkwood
chips, one is documented to a clock gate, and one is documented to a
be a power down. I wouldn't expect the clock gate to have a problem
with the MAC address, but the powerdown I would expect to wipe it..

Other varients might have only the powerdown..

That said, I'm not sure what Linux uses on Kirkwood, it ideally should
be using both, I think.

Jason



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