Ethernet PHY chip discovery not working on 855T with 971/972 chips

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Thu Jul 10 00:37:12 EST 2003


Dean Matsen wrote:

> Yes, I see we have no pullup on that line. We do dedicated HVAC
> applications, so we
> don't need to do this search.

But.......the hardware is broken.  The MDIO is supposed to be
an open-drain with a pullup.  I guess you may be lucky the
ends of the connection are driving the line proplerly, but it
could be luck that will run out someday.


	-- Dan


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