Question about GPIO bitbang MII

Marius Strobl marius at alchemy.franken.de
Tue Nov 1 16:17:51 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:56:32PM +0800, dave jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Marius Strobl  wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:34:58AM +0800, dave jones wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does FreeBSD have gpio bitbang api for MII? If not, any driver in tree using
> >> gpio-bitbang mii that I can refer to? Thanks.
> >> It seems like OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux have added support to gpio bitbang mii,
> >> and it's useful for porting embedded devices.
> >>
> >
> > If what you are referring to is their mii_bitbang.[c,h] then I've a patch
> > which (im)ports these and converts drivers to take advantage of it here:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/mii_bitbang.diff
> > You can also hook up that generic MII bitbang'ing code up to GPIO.
> 
> Awesome! This is what I want, thank you very much, Marius.
> 

FYI, I've committed the patch to head in r226995. I'll probably try to get
it into 9.0 due to the bus barrier additions done as part of it.

Marius



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