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    [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet · ad12e34f
    Anton Vorontsov authored
    As of current mainline tree, TULIP driver is unusable on MPC8610HPCD
    boards. There is a patch[1] floating around (and also included in the
    BSP), which tries to heal the situation, though the ethernet is still
    unusable. Practically it takes ages to mount NFS filesystem:
    
    VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
    Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k init
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK
    nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
    
    So, instead of trying to add uli526x functionality into TULIP driver
    (which is already bloated enough), I fixed existing ULI526X driver
    and now it works perfectly well here.
    
    [1] http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/0024-MPC8610-ETH-Lyra-native-ethernet.txtSigned-off-by: default avatarAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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