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RE: ecos.db patches for at91sam7xek


> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:34:11AM +0200, Wolfgang K?bler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 16-Oct-2006 Tim michals wrote:
> > > I have a demo board so I can do some USB testing and move 
> forward on 
> > > Ethernet....
> > Hint about Ethernet:
> > The at91sam7x eth is similar, but not identical to 
> at91rm9200 eth. I 
> > think they are similar enough so that the driver can be 
> based on one 
> > common source file (with conditional compilation). I think 
> this would 
> > be better than two seperate drivers. Whoever writes an eth 
> driver for 
> > one of the chips should have a look at the other chip.
> 
> This was my plan. However i got side tracked and have not 
> worked on the ethernet driver for over a month. I know John 
> Eigelaar was also working in this area, but he has gone quiet 
> recently, so i've no idea how far he has got.

I haven't left the planet yet. I was busy with the sam7x eth driver,
making Andrew's initial code work on the evaluation kit. I got as far as
getting everything compiled and running but no joy with actual traffic.
But the project got sidelined again (client very slow with making
decisions about money) so the work stopped.

However another project for at91rm9200 popped up and I am continuing to
work on the eth driver from that angle. Thus I am sort of working on
both with the view as to cater for both parts with the driver. 

Progress is slow though as this project falls about 3rd on my todo list.

The goal of my at91rm9200 work is firstly to create a port for Redboot
that will boot from
SPI dataflash using the at91rm9200 internal boot mechanism. If anybody
is interested in getting invlolved once again I will try to setup some
sort of framework for people to work from. 

Regards
John Eigelaar

>     Andrew
> 


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