Fix problems with Holly's DT representation of ethernet PHYs

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Fri May 25 12:04:57 EST 2007


On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:45:48AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:16 +1000, 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.
> 
> You'll need to fixup the mpc7448hpc2 board's DTS with the same change
> then, as it shares the same bridge and ethernet code.

Ah, yes.  Done.

> > 	- 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).
> 
> This part is fine with me.
> 
> josh
> 
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