[PATCH v5 net-next 1/2] dt-bindings: phy: cadence-torrent: Update property values to support multilink SERDES configuration

Gokul Praveen g-praveen at ti.com
Wed Jul 8 01:37:24 PDT 2026


Update the maxItems value of clocks parameter as 3 clocks
(refclk,pll1_refclk,phy_en_refclk) are supported.

Update the clock-names parameter to support mutilink SERDES configuration
as the existing enum configuration of the clock-names parameter does not
allow both pll1_refclk and phy_en_refclk to be used at the same time,
hence preventing the support for the configuration  (refclk,pll1_refclk,
phy_en_refclk), which is neeed for multilink SERDES usecases.

For multilink SERDES configurations where the links require different
clock speeds, all 3 clocks(refclk, pll1_refclk and phy_en_refclk)
are needed.

For example,considering the USXGMII+SGMII multilink SERDES configuration
usecase, having only 1 reference clock(refclk) fails because USXGMII
requires a clock speed of 156.25 Mhz and SGMII protocol requires an
clock speed of 100 Mhz.

Since one reference clock(refclk) alone cannot cater to the 2
different clock speed requirements of these protocols, the second
input reference clock(pll1_refclk) along with phy_en_refclk
is also needed.

Signed-off-by: Gokul Praveen <g-praveen at ti.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-cadence-torrent.yaml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-cadence-torrent.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-cadence-torrent.yaml
index 9af39b33646a..ac0f625cd76d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-cadence-torrent.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-cadence-torrent.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ properties:
 
   clocks:
     minItems: 1
-    maxItems: 2
+    maxItems: 3
     description:
       PHY input reference clocks - refclk (for PLL0) & pll1_refclk (for PLL1).
       pll1_refclk is optional and used for multi-protocol configurations requiring
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ properties:
     items:
       - const: refclk
       - enum: [ pll1_refclk, phy_en_refclk ]
+      - const: phy_en_refclk
 
   reg:
     minItems: 1
-- 
2.34.1




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