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Re: If i need a supportet microcontroller with a new ethernet PHY...
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: oli at snr dot ch
- Cc: "ecos-devel at sourceware dot org" <ecos-devel at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:08:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: If i need a supportet microcontroller with a new ethernet PHY...
- References: <48FF3FE1.6080309@snr.ch>
Oliver Munz @ SNR wrote:
> ... then i have to rewrite the void hal_plf_eth_init(void). I can make a
> new platform-variant for this, but may be there is a better solution
> like: make the hal_plf_eth_init PHY-dependent or make it configurable
> defined as external or something like this...
>
> The problem is, that every PHY has other initalisation requirements. And
> furthermore its a question of the concrete hardware what the CPU has to
> do to bring it to work. So the hal_plf_eth_init depens on the PHY, the
> ethernet and microcontroller and the concret circuit...
>
> What is the best way to use a special hal_plf_eth_init()?
What's the platform/target?
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