Hi Chris,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Chris Brandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2016, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> SH7757 is not the only platform with TSU, there's e.g. R8A7740 ARM
>> SoC which only has 1 GETHER channel...
>
> I don't have the R8A7740 manual (R-Mobile A1) so I can't see. But even if it
> does not have the POST registers, it might not hurt anything.
R8a7740 does have the POST registers.
> I just looked at the RZ/A1 register space and there seems to be dummy
> registers in the POST1-4 area. I can write to them and read back what I
> wrote...which is all that the sh_eth driver cares about. I bet when the
> designers bring in the EtherC IP block, the entire register address is always
> populated with a simple latch registers. And then, if a feature is not
> included (like relay/POST), then nothing is hooked up on the back side of it.
What a waste of transistors...
There are plenty of hidden registers in many IP blocks.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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