gianfar in SGMII mode

[Nate Case]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:53 -0500, Nate Case wrote:
> I'm looking at gfar_configure_serdes() and I'm at a loss as to why
> this
> is always called when the MAC is in SGMII mode.  It looks like it
> assumes the use of TBI for some reason.  On my board it's just a
> regular
> SGMII interface to a bcm5482 PHY in SGMII mode, so there is no TBI
> involved.
> 
> I'm guessing this is a case of the driver making incorrect assumptions
> based on the existing Freescale boards.  Or am I missing something
> here? 

Answering my own question: I see now that TBI is used internally on the
chip for the SerDes interface which implements SGMII..  so maybe there's
no problem with what the driver is doing after all.

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Nate Case <ncase at xes-inc.com>