On 2016/12/8 23:25, David Miller wrote: > From: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.tor...@st.com> > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 14:55:04 +0100 > >> Maybe I forget some series. Do you have others in mind ? > Please see the thread titled: > > "net: ethernet: Initial driver for Synopsys DWC XLGMAC" > > which seems to be discussing consolidation of various drivers > for the same IP core, of which stmmac is one. > > I personally am against any change of the driver name and > things like this, and wish the people doing that work would > simply contribute to making whatever changes they need directly > to the stmmac driver. > > You really need to voice your opinion when major changes are being > proposed for the driver you maintain. > Hi David and Alex,
XLGMAC is not a version of GMAC. Synopsys has several IPs and each IP has several versions. GMAC(QoS): 3.5, 3.7, 4.0, 4.10, 4.20... XGMAC: 1.00, 1.10, 1.20, 2.00, 2.10, 2.11... XLGMAC (Synopsys DesignWare Core Enterprise Ethernet): this is a new IP. Regards, Jie
