On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:22:25AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > these are a few patches that cumulated here related to the i210 network > controller. > > These are nearly good enough to populate the attached flash with a valid > firmware (which you still need to have yourself) on all machines I have > access to. > > There is still one (to me) known problem: When the flash doesn't contain > a valid image, accessing the eeprom (which is a simulated device on i210 > that is backed up by shadow RAM and the two first pages of flash) gives > the contents of iNVM instead of the expected default eeprom. That > results in a few wrong turns in the code but they are not grave enough > to stop being able to write a valid firmware image. > > A bit that is still missing is that a customer machine uses an flash > that is write protected at power on. An i210 with an programmed flash is > clever enough to remove the write protection before writing to it, but > that doesn't help when the flash is not programmed (tin opener inside). > I have a prototype that can remove the write protection with a > cryptic command but that's not ready for prime time yet. > > Best regards > Uwe > > Uwe Kleine-König (6): > net/e1000: fix coding style at a few locations > net/e1000: don't use the eeprom word size as timeout to get a > semaphore > net/e1000: reorder functions > net/e1000: provide access to iNVM even if a flash is present > net/e1000: fix size of invm device > net/e1000: provide device for accessing emulated eeprom > > drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h | 8 +- > drivers/net/e1000/eeprom.c | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- > drivers/net/e1000/main.c | 6 +- > 3 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-) Applied, thanks Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
