fixed phy -- how do we decide to use this code?

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 16 03:20:14 EST 2009


On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:54:40AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Vitaly, Anton
>>
>> You guys have used this code.. I was wondering how we decide to  
>> used the
>> fixed phy vs another phy.  Is this a runtime decision based on  
>> something
>> in the device tree or purely at compile time?
>
> It's specified via fixed-link property in the device tree.
> The bindings described in Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/ 
> tsec.txt.

Ok, I want to make sure I can build a platform that uses a normal PHY  
that is detected (like a marvell PHY) and and have another platform  
that is fixed-link in the same kernel image.  Sounds like we'll be ok.

- k



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