[PATCH] powerpc/83xx: Revive Marvell PHY option on MPC8313E-RDB rev. C boards

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 12 16:25:45 EST 2009


>> On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>
>>> commit e85477f516c2de7ed515fcf94ceab5282eba7fa4 ("powerpc/83xx: Fix
>>> TSEC0 workability on MPC8313E-RDB boards") fixed TSEC0
>> workability for
>>> rev. A and rev. B boards by using fixed-link property for VSC 7385
>>> 5-port switch. But rev. C boards have an option where TSEC0
>> connected
>>> to a Marvell PHY, which is a normal PHY on MDIO bus.
>>>
>>> So far U-Boot does not fix up TSEC0 nodes for MPC8313E-RDB
>> boards, so
>>> we'd better include two device-tree files: one that specify Vitesse
>>> PHY and another for boards with Marvell PHY option.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Li, thanks for heads-up!
>>>
>>> One thing though: documentation says that Marvell PHY
>> address is 0x3,
>>> while old device tree and this patch:
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/linux-fsl-2.6.23-MPC8313ERDB-add- 
>> default-
>>> dts.patch
>>>
>>> says "0x1"... I don't have any rev. C boards, so it would
>> be great if
>>> somebody could confirm that 0x1 is the actual address.
>>>
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8313erdb_marvell_phy.dts |  401
>> ++++++++++++
>>> +++++++++
>>> arch/powerpc/configs/83xx/mpc8313_rdb_defconfig   |    2 +-
>>> 2 files changed, 402 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) create
>> mode 100644
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8313erdb_marvell_phy.dts
>>
>> did we decide that we don't have any bcsr or something that
>> convey board rev or this setting?
>
> Nope for now.  The board do have two revision bits readable to the  
> core,
> one bit set by resisters and the other set by a switch.  We don't
> currently have a convention for using these two bits.  And apperently
> they can't cover the information of both the board revision and setup.
>
> - Leo

ok.  I'll take the patch pending the other question Anton raised about  
the phy id.

- k



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