gianfar in SGMII mode

[Andy Fleming]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:23, Nate Case wrote:

> 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.


Yeah, it's screwy, but that's how the chip works.

Andy