[PATCH 5/6] powerpc/corenet: Add DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Tue May 6 17:40:55 EST 2014


"Linuxppc-dev" 
<linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode.se at lists.ozlabs.org> 
wrote on 2014/05/06 08:28:42:
> 

.....

> 
> > That said,
> > I don't object to having a way to label a PHY as attached via TBI if
> > that's useful.  I'm giving a mild, non-nacking (given the history)
> > objection to using device_type for that (given other history).
> 
> Personally, I think that TBI PHY support is a bit messy but I don't have
> bandwidth to deal with that. The TBI PHY should be handled as a regular
> PHY and right now is a special case

Yes please! We will use the TBI as the only PHY in 1000BASE-X mode so
naturally we want to see the TBI as its own PHY and monitor its link 
status, AN etc.

 Jocke


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