[EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: enable the fourth network interface

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 10:35:25AM +0000, Stefan Chulski wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > Indeed. RGMII MAC behaves same way, although it shouldn't be named as 'in-
> > band' to be on par with the specifications. Anyway - this one is rather a stub for
> > being able to work with ACPI, so once the MDIO bus works there, this will be
> > out of any concerns.
> 
> Hi Marcin,
> 
> This is correct.
> "in-band" supported only for SGMII mode.
> IRQ link interrupt depend on "in-band"' auto negation only if "in-band"' enabled.
> But IRQ link interrupt could be triggered with "in-band", "out-band" or with specific fixed speed/duplex/flow_contol.

Hi Stefan,

How does this work in RGMII mode - is this handled by the PP2 polling
the PHY to get the speed, duplex and flow control settings?

Thanks.

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