Direct MII connection between MPC8313 and VIRTEX FPGA

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Jun 30 01:40:28 EST 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Frank
Prepelica<Frank.Prepelica at ubidyne.com> wrote:
> Hi Grant
>
> Thanks for your response!
>
> I have searched for "current-speed" in drivers/net/fec_mpc52xx.c but I cannot find anything. However we are using the gianfar.c Ethernet driver.
> Do you know whether this driver supports fixed MII links without PHY?

What kernel version are you using?

> I've got another question regarding MII connection between and MPC and a Virtex FPGA. Whats about the PHY address which has to be set in the DTB file? Do I have to modify the DTB at all?

Yes, you need to modify the DTB.  You have a back to back MII
connection, not a phy, so you do *not* want to have a PHY node in the
device tree.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.


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