[Arm-netbook] Mele A1000 ethernet

[Mark Wilczynski]

I guess the "wemac" must be internal to the A10 since it's not mentioned on this list of parts and temperatures of the Mele motherboard:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AsMGqZyIC9F3dFprNmxwOXNuV3VmYWZTaWFGNHVXa3c&output=html
Sounds like a generic name (we)mac could just stand for wired-ethernet or something.  Who knows what the actual part number is.

> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:51:56 +0900
> From: lundman at lundman.net
> To: arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Mele A1000 ethernet
> 
> 
>  From my inspection of the two drivers, and I initially tried to take 
> dm9000 to make it work with A10. However, even though the two files are 
> very similar, the sun4i wemac only does 32bit access. If the dm9000 sources 
> are used (in particular ior/w) it will generally just panic, or return 
> nonsense.
> 
> So the register offsets are not quite at the same offsets, and some bits 
> are not the same. Without the details it would hard to guess. Most is very 
> similar though.
> 
> Personally, by removing the CPU waits, it can stream 1080p video for me, 
> including high-bitrate media, so I find it sufficient to my needs.
> 
> It is always good to squeeze more out of hardware of course, but I am now 
> more interested in bit-streaming audio. For me, just 2 channels is not 
> enough :)
> 
> Lund
> 
> 
> 
> Alejandro Mery wrote:
> > On 23 July 2012 11:20, Valery Yundin <yu.valery+arm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if there is any chance we will see some day the
> >> documentation on WEMAC NIC (it is part of A10 chip, right?).
> >> The open source driver can do about half of what a decent Linux
> >> network driver should do.
> >
> > it is part of the A10 chip, but it seems to be a dm9000.
> >

 		 	   		  
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