Hello Jie Deng
In your cover letter you wrote dwc-eth-xxx.x The DWC ethernet core layer (DWC ECL). This layer contains codes can be shared by different DWC series ethernet cores Does this mean that code in dwc-eth-xxx.x is common to all the different Synopsys IPs, GMAC, XGMAC and XLGMAC ? Regards, Niklas On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jie Deng <jie.de...@synopsys.com> wrote: > > > 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 >
