Re: [RFC PATCH 08/13] dwmac-meson8b: add support for phy selection

From	Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 08/13] dwmac-meson8b: add support for phy selection
Date	2016-10-31 15:30 +0100
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On 10/21/2016 06:08 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Neil
> 
>> Yes this would be a good idea if we were able to scan the internal
>> and external PHYs at the same time, but with our limited knowledge
>> the values we write in the register seems to switch a mux for the
>> whole RMII and MDIO signals to either interface.
> 
> Ah, O.K. So you need something like:
> 
> drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux-mmioreg.c
> 
> This seems to be limited to a single byte for the mux register, so you
> might need to make some extensions.
> 
>       Andrew
> 

Thanks for the hint, I will try to make use of this !

Neil

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Re: [RFC PATCH 08/13] dwmac-meson8b: add support for phy selection Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> - 2016-10-31 15:30 +0100

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