Re: SMSC LAN9118 Family driver

[KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara%kk.iij4u.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi! Tsutsui-san,


From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:56:58 +0900

> > The MAC Address auto-loaded to the register ADDR[HL] by LAN9118, if valid
> > EEPROM on board.  Maybe all ISA device have valid EEPROM.
> > However GUMSTIX not have EEPROM.  And calculate from serial-number of
> > board.
> 
> Hmm, is if_smsh_gxio.c GUMSTIC specific?

Yes, it is.

> I.e. is the EEPROM backend dependent or each evaluation board dependent?

No, isn't. Maybe it evalusion board dependent.


> If some on-board ISA-based smsh(4) doesn't have EEPROM
> but other smsh(4) on the ISA slot might have EEPROM,
> it should be handled by proplib, like wm(4) on iyonix.

I think that the case is very rare.  I think that I can remove EEPROM.
For instance, re(4) and tlp(4), etc.  Should we use proplib in
if_ethersubr.c::ether_ifattach() if it worries about such a case?

Thanks,
--
kiyohara