[PATCH 3/3] ARM: zynq: DT: Add Ethernet phys

[Andreas Färber]

Am 29.08.2014 17:35, schrieb Sören Brinkmann:
> On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 05:18PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 29.08.2014 16:08, schrieb Michal Simek:
>>> I think resolution is:
>>> 1. Do not use marvell,88e1518 because it is not listed anywhere
>>> 2. Do not add ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB because it breaks autodetection
>>> if there is different phy on the board and we shouldn't restrict us in this.
>>> In spite of autodetection takes some time.
>>> 3. "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22" is optional that's why doesn't need to be added
>>> 4. Any listed compatible string has to be parsed which takes time
>>>
>>> That's why I think make sense not to use any compatible string.
>>> This should give us all flexibility which we want to have.
>>
>> Sorry, but we do need some node that we can reference via phy-handle
>> from the gem node, don't we?
>>
>> In that case, is not specifying any compatible string a valid option?
>>
>> If you don't want to specify the IDs, then I would've assumed we need to
>> specify the -c22 in order to have *some* compatible string in order to
>> trigger loading of the appropriate driver module.
> 
> The compatible string is listed as optional property for PHYs. So, not
> having one is an option, I guess. But, I'd also prefer to at least keep
> the -c22 one, since I saw problems when I tried using -c45 (the Zed phy
> should support it...).
> Also, so far, we haven't had any phy nodes in our Zynq dts files and
> Ethernet worked, so the auto-detection there works pretty well
> apparently. But it may be problematic if more than a single PHY is on
> the MDIO bus, I'd assume.

Hm, it didn't work for me initially, but maybe some config option was
missing in multi_v7 or something else. I'll re-test next week.

Andreas

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