[PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: net: Add ICSSG Ethernet Driver bindings

[Andrew Lunn]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 03:04:19PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/12/2022 16:28, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> +        ethernet-ports {
> >> +            #address-cells = <1>;
> >> +            #size-cells = <0>;
> >> +            pruss2_emac0: port at 0 {
> >> +                reg = <0>;
> >> +                phy-handle = <&pruss2_eth0_phy>;
> >> +                phy-mode = "rgmii-rxid";
> > 
> > That is unusual. Where are the TX delays coming from?
> 
> >From the below property
> 
> +                ti,syscon-rgmii-delay = <&scm_conf 0x4120>;
> 
> The TX delay can be enabled/disabled from within the ICSSG block.
> 
> If this property exists and PHY mode is neither PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID
> nor PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_TXID then the internal delay is enabled.
> 
> This logic is in prueth_config_rgmiidelay() function in the introduced driver.

What nearly every other MAC driver does is pass the phy-mode to the
PHY and lets the PHY add the delays. I would recommend you do that,
rather than be special and different.

       Andrew