From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/33] sfc: Work around unreliable strap pins Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:34:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20081212.213434.250861467.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20081212124622.GK32518@solarflare.com> <20081212125127.GH10372@solarflare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36642 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752211AbYLMFed (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:34:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081212125127.GH10372@solarflare.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:51:28 +0000 > The SFC4000 has strap pins indicating the presence of SPI flash and/or > EEPROM. These pins are also used for GPIO, and in some cases they may > be read wrongly at reset. However, on production boards it must boot > from one or the other device, so we can assume the boot device is > present and read the board config from there. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Applied.