[PATCH v2.6.26] powerpc: Add 8568 PHY workaround to board code

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Apr 19 08:37:58 EST 2008


On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Andy Fleming wrote:
> The 8568 MDS needs some configuration changes to the PHY in order to  
> work
> properly.  These are done in the firmware, normally, but Linux  
> shouldn't
> need to rely on the firmware running such things (someone could  
> disable
> the PHY support in the firmware to save space, for instance).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming at freescale.com>
> ---
>
> Jeff, copying you so you can see what code uses the board fixup  
> patch.  Also,
> Kumar, note that this patch is utterly useless without the patch  
> sent to netdev:
> Add support for board-level PHY fixups.

ok, I'll queue it up for a post initial pull of netdev, etc.

I'm assuming the board-level PHY fixup support has been ack'd by Jeff  
and will go into 2.6.26.

- k



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