Fix problems with Holly's DT representation of ethernet PHYs

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 24 23:44:20 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:22 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On May 23, 2007, at 11:16 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes some problems with the way the Ethernet PHYs are
> > represented in the device tree for the Holly board.  This means
> > changes to the dts itself, and to the code with instantiates the
> > tsi108 ethernet platform devices based on the device tree.
> >
> > 	- First, and most importantly, the PHYs are given with an
> > identical 'reg' property.  This reg currently encodes the accessible
> > register used to initiate mdio interaction with the PHYs, rather than
> > a meaningful address on the parent bus (mdio in this case), which is
> > incorrect.  Instead we give the address of these registers as 'reg' in
> > the mdio node itself, and encode the ID of each phy in their 'reg'
> > propertys.  The PHY's unit name addresses are updated to match.
> > 	- Second, the PHYs give only "bcm54xx" as a compatible
> > property.  This is unfortunate, because there are many bcm54xx PHY
> > models, and they have differences which can matter.  We add a more
> > precise compatible string, giving the precise PHY model (bcm5461A in
> > this case).
> 
> Is the compatible really need here?  We are able to provide and bind  
> drivers based on MII_PHYSID1/2.  I don't see what putting the  
> compatible proper gets us.

I think it's needed until the TSI driver switches to phylib.  Right now,
it assumes that a Marvell phy is used, which is what is present on the
Taiga MPC7448HPC2 board.  The Holly board uses the Broadcom phy and we
added the compatible code for that.

josh




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