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Revision 810198bc9c109489dfadc57131c5183ce6ad2d7d authored by Rajashekhara, Sudhakar on 12 July 2011, 10:28:53 UTC, committed by Sekhar Nori on 07 September 2011, 08:53:01 UTC 
ARM: davinci: da850 EVM: read mac address from SPI flash
 
DA850/OMAP-L138 EMAC driver uses random mac address instead of
a fixed one because the mac address is not stuffed into EMAC
platform data.

This patch provides a function which reads the mac address
stored in SPI flash (registered as MTD device) and populates the
EMAC platform data. The function which reads the mac address is
registered as a callback which gets called upon addition of MTD
device.

NOTE: In case the MAC address stored in SPI flash is erased, follow
the instructions at [1] to restore it.

[1] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/GSG:_OMAP-L138_DVEVM_Additional_Procedures#Restoring_MAC_address_on_SPI_Flash

Modifications in v2:
Guarded registering the mtd_notifier only when MTD is enabled.
Earlier this was handled using mtd_has_partitions() call, but
this has been removed in Linux v3.0.

Modifications in v3:
a. Guarded da850_evm_m25p80_notify_add() function and
   da850evm_spi_notifier structure with CONFIG_MTD macros.
b. Renamed da850_evm_register_mtd_user() function to
   da850_evm_setup_mac_addr() and removed the struct mtd_notifier
   argument to this function.
c. Passed the da850evm_spi_notifier structure to register_mtd_user()
   function.

Modifications in v4:
Moved the da850_evm_setup_mac_addr() function within the first
CONFIG_MTD ifdef construct.

Signed-off-by: Rajashekhara, Sudhakar <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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README.syncppp 
Some additional information for setting up a syncPPP
connection using network interfaces.
---------------------------------------------------------------

You need one thing beside the isdn4linux package:

  a patched pppd .. (I called it ipppd to show the difference)

Compiling isdn4linux with sync PPP:
-----------------------------------
To compile isdn4linux with the sync PPP part, you have
to answer the appropriate question when doing a "make config"
Don't forget to load the slhc.o
module before the isdn.o module, if VJ-compression support
is not compiled into your kernel. (e.g if you have no PPP or
CSLIP in the kernel)

Using isdn4linux with sync PPP:
-------------------------------
Sync PPP is just another encapsulation for isdn4linux. The
name to enable sync PPP encapsulation is 'syncppp' .. e.g:

  /sbin/isdnctrl encap ippp0 syncppp

The name of the interface is here 'ippp0'. You need 
one interface with the name 'ippp0' to saturate the
ipppd, which checks the ppp version via this interface.
Currently, all devices must have the name ipppX where
'X' is a decimal value.

To set up a PPP connection you need the ipppd .. You must start 
the ipppd once after installing the modules. The ipppd 
communicates with the isdn4linux link-level driver using the
/dev/ippp0 to /dev/ippp15 devices. One ipppd can handle
all devices at once. If you want to use two PPP connections
at the same time, you have to connect the ipppd to two
devices .. and so on. 
I've implemented one additional option for the ipppd:
 'useifip' will get (if set to not 0.0.0.0) the IP address 
 for the negotiation from the attached network-interface. 
(also: ipppd will try to negotiate pointopoint IP as remote IP)
You must disable BSD-compression, this implementation can't
handle compressed packets.

Check the etc/rc.isdn.syncppp in the isdn4kernel-util package
for an example setup script.

To use the MPPP stuff, you must configure a slave device
with isdn4linux. Now call the ipppd with the '+mp' option.
To increase the number of links, you must use the
'addlink' option of the isdnctrl tool. (rc.isdn.syncppp.MPPP is
an example script)

enjoy it,
    michael
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