29 Nov
2013
29 Nov
'13
7:22 a.m.
Dear Graeme,
In message CALButCLwhOsYwDYCVnRZU_=2ODEah_40grSEr59coYAc=RUJ7w@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
The 82559 is the EEPROM for the Intel Fast Ethernet controller, and as such, I think any interface to it should be done via a proper driver and not by a standalone application. Besides, I really doubt that there are any systems using an 82559 and U-Boot in the wild, and probably never will be.
Actually a big telecom company used this in one of their products, and I assume it was quite high volume - but then, this was about a decade ago, or so. Given the typical lifetime of such products there are probably still a number of them around, but you are right: this code is of nostalgic value at best.
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Wolfgang Denk
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