Hello, Here is a set of patches that update the sb1250-mac driver used for the onchip Gigabit Ethernet interfaces of the Broadcom SiByte family of SOCs including the BCM1250 and a couple of other members. These are used, among others, on various Broadcom evaluation boards together with Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PHY chips. Changes include porting the driver to the driver model as a platform device, support for phylib, including the BCM54xx PHYs in the interrupt mode, proper resource managment and a couple of minor clean-ups. Apart from changes to networking code, there are a few required in the architecture-specific areas and therefore I am sending these changes to Ralf and the linux-mips list as well. It might also involve a few more interested parties in the discussion. The changes were tested with a Broadcom SWARM board, which includes a BCM1250 part which has 3 MAC units on chip, of which 2 are usable, with BCM5421 PHY chips attached (both wired to the same interrupt line, which made testing whether IRQ sharing works properly in phylib possible). Link partners included a 1000base and a 100base interface doing autonegotiation as well as a 10base one doing none. Other Broadcom boards that I know of may have these or BCM5411 or BCM5461 chips. The lack of documentation or at least actual pieces of hardware makes the use of interrupts impossible for all but the SWARM, the Sentosa and the Shorty (with the latter unsupported by Linux). Maciej
