[PATCH v3 1/4] net: nb8800: Drop generic support
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mans at mansr.com
Tue Nov 14 04:37:56 PST 2017
Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez at sigmadesigns.com> writes:
> According to our HW dev, there is no provision for software to safely
> disable RX DMA in the AU-NB8800 hardware block (ethernet DMA). Thus,
> it is the responsibility of the SoC designer to provide such a feature.
>
> The nb8800_dma_stop() implementation is a clever hack that works most
> of the times, but it breaks the DMA state machine in rare cases.
>
> Therefore, let's drop generic support.
>
> FWIW, tango chips provide a reset register. When the ethernet block
> comes out of reset, DMA is disabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez at sigmadesigns.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c
> index e94159507847..26f719e2d6ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aurora/nb8800.c
> @@ -1335,9 +1335,6 @@ static const struct nb8800_ops nb8800_tango4_ops = {
> };
>
> static const struct of_device_id nb8800_dt_ids[] = {
> - {
> - .compatible = "aurora,nb8800",
> - },
> {
> .compatible = "sigma,smp8642-ethernet",
> .data = &nb8800_tangox_ops,
> --
Please leave this. It works just fine on tango3.
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