Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752125AbdGaMUH (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:20:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.csie.ntu.edu.tw ([140.112.30.61]:40872 "EHLO smtp.csie.ntu.edu.tw" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbdGaMUF (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:20:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170729064815.GA2024@Red> References: <20170728092818.23419-1-clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> <20170728135544.GD32230@lunn.ch> <20170728142508.GA7221@Red> <20170728143600.GB2132@lunn.ch> <20170728144424.GB7221@Red> <20170729064815.GA2024@Red> From: Chen-Yu Tsai Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:19:40 +0800 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net-next: stmmac: support future possible different internal phy mode To: Corentin Labbe Cc: Florian Fainelli , Andrew Lunn , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Maxime Ripard , Chen-Yu Tsai , Russell King , Giuseppe Cavallaro , alexandre.torgue@st.com, devicetree , netdev , linux-kernel , linux-sunxi , linux-arm-kernel , Icenowy Zheng Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1887 Lines: 59 On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Corentin Labbe wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 07/28/2017 07:44 AM, Corentin Labbe wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:36:00PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> >>>> I've probably asked this before: Does the internal PHY use a different >> >>>> PHY ID in registers 2 and 3? >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> yes >> >>> >> >>> reg2: 0x0044 >> >>> reg3: 0X1500 >> > >> > Copy/paste error, its 1400 >> > >> >> >> >> So this is not about loading the correct PHY driver. You can already >> >> do this based on the PHY IDs... >> >> >> >> This is about selecting which PHY to use. Internal or External? >> >> >> >> Andrew >> > >> > It is too late when we know the PHY ID. >> >> > We need to set a syscon for choosing external/internal PHY. >> > So we can rely only on DT. >> >> Since the Device Tree needs to be correct to identify which PHY to use >> (internal or external), if you use the standard compatible string for >> the PHY that contains its OUI, e.g: >> >> compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0044.1400", "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22" >> >> then you can have your Ethernet MAC identify whether this is an internal >> PHY by having a list of compatible strings to match against. > > So basicly, I replace sun8i-h3-ephy by ethernet-phy-id0044.1400 and it is good ? IIRC you mentioned some time ago the PHY in the AC200 also has this ID? Do you remember if this is true? If someone were crazy enough to hook that up to the H3, then we still wouldn't be able to tell if it's the internal or external one. ChenYu > >> >> Corentin, can you make sure you copy netdev, Andrew and myself on the >> next submissions so we don't have to keep track of seemingly identical >> threads (this one + the rockchip dwmac changes) and we can work towards >> one solution? > > Ok > > Thanks > Corentin Labbe