[PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: sun6i: Turn on gmac on Colombus
Hans de Goede
hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Sep 29 13:10:20 PDT 2015
Hi,
On 08/21/2015 12:12 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:23:27AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 08/19/2015 05:17 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 05:22:34PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> We've everything we need to support the gmac on Colombus, turn it on.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>
>>> I recall that the phy was powered by one of the AXP221 regulators,
>>> does it require some additional stuff (like a recent u-boot), or does
>>> it just work and my memory is bad :) ?
>>
>> I think it just works, it MAY be connected to aldo1 but according to
>> the git history for the u-boot defconfig that one is used for wifi not
>> for the gmac, and we do not enable any other "spare" regulators in the
>> u-boot config.
>>
>> I do not have any schematics, so no way to say for sure.
>>
>> I can confirm that the GMAC work fine with the latest u-boot
>> master. Looking in the history we've always enabled ALDO1
>> on the Colombus in upstream u-boot, so this should all just work.
>
> Except that if it is the case, the DT was working fine with the stock
> bootloader, and it doesn't anymore, while we have no way to upgrade
> it.
Ok, I've finally made some time to test this, the gmac works fine
with aldo1 disabled, so I believe this patch can be merged as is.
Regards,
Hans
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