does Gianfar Ethernet Controller Version 1.1 support MARVELL 88E1111?

Guo Jaffe jianfei616 at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 12 17:34:01 EST 2006


Hi Dave,

"Do you have a low reset pulse to PHY before pull up the RSTn?"
Yes, I do.

>From: Liu Dave-r63238 <DaveLiu at freescale.com>
>To: "'Guo Jaffe'" <jianfei616 at hotmail.com>,        Fleming Andy-afleming 
<afleming at freescale.com>
>CC: Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
>Subject: RE: does Gianfar Ethernet Controller Version 1.1 support MARVELL 
88E1111?
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:46:15 +0800
>
> >
> > The PHY ID I read is MARVELL 88E1101(1410cc2)
> >
>The MDIO bus is working well, the 88E1101's ID is 1410c6x,
>the 88E1111 is 1410ccx.
>
> > Today I took the MPC 8540 off the board, and checked the two
> > GMII phy chips
> 
> alone. I manually pulled up the phys's RST pins when the cable was in
> > position. But the link LED still can't light up. So it turned
> > out not the
> > driver's problem.
> >
>Do you have a low reset pulse to PHY before pull up the RSTn?
>
> > The hardware configuration of 88E1111 is GMII to copper, Auto-Neg,
> > advertise all capabilities, prefer Master.
> >
> > The PHY's power is correct and clean. And for interface
> > between TESC and
> > PHY I think even TESC power is set for 3.3V environment it
> > still can work
> > with the 88e1111 whose VDD is 2.5V. Because the datasheet of
> > 88e1111 says
> > that input pins are 3.3V tolerant. Am I right?
> >
>You are right.
>
>-Dave





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