Dear Scott Nicholas,
In message AANLkTingEZsfkziHF+QDBxDm8ri1tL4eQA5v+DNYTStP@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
There is no dec21140 Ethernet driver in mainline U-Boot, so it's pretty unlikely that there will be much feedback. Just don't be disappointed.
I mean drivers/net/dc2114x.c, whatever name it goes by.
Oops. You are right.
But tehre are only few board configfurations that enable that driver, and most of them are old and unmaintained. I doubt any of these ever used netconsole.
The only more recent system is `linkstation', but again I doubt if it has been tested with netconsole (but of course you might ask Guennadi, the maintainer).
I may. But I can't test changes to dc2114x itself, is why I asked the list. Because maybe the board that does use it, does not exactly follow behavior of mine?
Try and ask if Guennadi can test this on his linkstation.
Little would be gained from including my target to mainline. Afaik, it's only in this 1 router. The chip and board both out of production. But I can submit.
There may be other users who use this box, and there are probably other, similar systems.
I'm currently trying to have MIPS startup code use unlzma on the rest, so that I may fit the entire binary into the same 64k sector used currently. Would such a patch seem useful for submission as well? seems not much MIPS use in here.
Indeed, there are not so many MIPS users out there. Dunno why.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk