[PATCH RFC net-next 0/9] net: stmmac: experimental PCS conversion
Maxime Chevallier
maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Fri Oct 3 06:24:32 PDT 2025
Hi Russell,
> Thanks for the offer of testing.
>
> Do you know how the stmmac core has been synthesized as far as the
> MII interface from it?
>
> If not, if it's using gmac1000, possibly later cores as well, then
> DMA_HW_FEATURE (or FEATURE0) bits 30:28 should give that information.
> I'd guess GMII, so probably contains 0. The driver doesn't actually
> use these, or even look at them.
When synthesized with Lynx, this reads 0 indeed. On my device there are
2 instances of socfpga, the other instance doesn't include Lynx and uses
RGMII, so in that case bits 30:28 read 1.
I hope that helps :)
Maxime
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