Meson GXL and Rockchip PHY based on same IP?

[Heiner Kallweit]

On 30.07.2022 19:06, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> Hi Heiner,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 5:59 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Meson GXL and Rockchip ethernet PHY drivers have quite something in common.
>> They share a number of non-standard registers, using the same bits
>> and same bank handling. This makes me think they they may be using
>> the same IP. However they have different quirk handling. But this
>> doesn't rule out that actually they would need the same quirk handling.
> You made me curious and I found the following public Microchip
> LAN83C185 datasheet: [0]
> Page 27 has a "SMI REGISTER MAPPING" which matches the definitions in
> meson-gxl.c.
> Also on page 33 the interrupt source bits are a 100% match with the
> INTSRC_* marcos in meson-gxl.c
> 
Great, thanks for investigating!

> Whether this means that:
> - Amlogic SoCs embed a LAN83C185
> - LAN83C185 is based on the same IP core (possibly not even designed
> by Amlogic or SMSC)
> - the SMI interface design is something that one hardware engineer
> brought from one company to another
> - ...something else
> is something I can't tell
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> [0] https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/LAN83C185-Data-Sheet-DS00002808A.pdf