[net-next: PATCH 0/8] Armada 7k/8k PP2 ACPI support

[Marcin Wojtas]

2018-01-03 14:33 GMT+01:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:13:09PM +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> 2018-01-03 13:47 GMT+01:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>:
>> >> I already agreed with 'reg' being awkward in the later emails.
>> >> Wouldn't _ADR be more appropriate to specify PHY address on MDIO bus?
>> >
>> > Also, how do you specify which MDIO bus the PHY is on. To fully
>> > specify a PHY, you need both bits of information.
>> >
>> > In DT, the phy-handle phandle can point to any PHY anywhere in the
>> > system. This is particularly important when a Ethernet device has two
>> > MDIO busses.
>> >
>>
>> For now, my local MDIO bus description is pretty DT-like, i.e. master
>> bus with children PHYs:
>>         Device (MDIO)
>>         {
>>             Name (_HID, "MRVL0100")                             //
>> _HID: Hardware ID
>>             Name (_UID, 0x00)                                   //
>> _UID: Unique ID
>>             Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
>>             {
>>                 Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
>>                     0xf212a200,                                 // Address Base
>>                     0x00000010,                                 //
>> Address Length
>>                     )
>>             })
>>             Device (GPHY)
>>             {
>>               Name (_ADR, 0x0)
>>             }
>>         }
>>
>>         Device (XSMI)
>>         {
>>             Name (_HID, "MRVL0101")                             //
>> _HID: Hardware ID
>>             Name (_UID, 0x00)                                   //
>> _UID: Unique ID
>>             Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
>>             {
>>                 Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
>>                     0xf212a600,                                 // Address Base
>>                     0x00000010,                                 //
>> Address Length
>>                     )
>>             })
>>             Device (PHY0)
>>             {
>>               Name (_ADR, 0x0)
>>               Name (_CID, "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45")
>>             }
>>             Device (PHY8)
>>             {
>>               Name (_ADR, 0x8)
>>               Name (_CID, "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45")
>>             }
>>         }
>>
>> Which is referenced in the port's node:
>>
>> Package () { "phy", Package (){\_SB.XSMI.PHY0}},
>
> Hi Marcin
>
> This reference looks good, giving both the bus and the PHY on the bus.
>
> I assume you can use references like this within the Device (PHY8)
> node?

Yes.

> You need to be able to reference a GPIO used for resetting the
> PHY. And you also need to reference a GPIO at the Device (MDIO) level
> for resetting all the PHYs on the MDIO bus.
>

Yes, for full support of PHYs the GPIO must be supported, as well as
the PHY's IRQs.

Best regards,
Marcin