[RFC PATCH 08/13] dwmac-meson8b: add support for phy selection

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Oct 21 09:08:07 PDT 2016


Hi Neil

> Yes this would be a good idea if we were able to scan the internal
> and external PHYs at the same time, but with our limited knowledge
> the values we write in the register seems to switch a mux for the
> whole RMII and MDIO signals to either interface.

Ah, O.K. So you need something like:

drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux-mmioreg.c

This seems to be limited to a single byte for the mux register, so you
might need to make some extensions.

      Andrew



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