CONFIG_FEC is not good for mpc8xx ethernet?

[Scott Wood]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:40:42 +0800
"tiejun.chen" <tiejun.chen at windriver.com> wrote:

> Shawn Jin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My target is a mpc875 based board and has FEC ethernet. The phy is
> > AM79C874. I have the following configuration for the network support.
> > 
> > CONFIG_PHYLIB=y
> > CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
> > CONFIG_MII=y
> > CONFIG_FS_ENET=y
> > CONFIG_FS_ENET_HAS_FEC=y
> > CONFIG_FS_ENET_MDIO_FEC=y
> > 
> > However I found that the phy support (AM79C874) is actually in
> > drivers/net/fec.c which is compiled only when CONFIG_FEC=y. However
> 
> The phy driver should not be embedded into the NIC driver in theory.

Right, those are handled by drivers/net/phy/.

> I think you should include the phy driver, mdio-bitbang.c, which should be
> support AMD79C874.

On MPC8xx you want drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c.  This is just the
MDIO driver; it doesn't handle any particular PHY.  I don't know if
there is a driver specifically for AM79C874, though the generic PHY
support may be good enough.

-Scott