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On 7/2/2023 12:21 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>> it is the PLL related registers, there is no PHY ID existed in MII register
>> 2, 3 of this block, so it can't be instantiated as the generic PHY device.
> 
> Well, phylib is going to scan those ID registers, and if it finds
> something other than 0xffff 0xffff in those two ID registers it is
> going to think a PHY is there. And then if there is no driver using
> that ID, it will instantiate a generic PHY.
> 
> You might be able to see this in /sys/bus/mdio_bus, especially if you
> don't have a DT node representing the MDIO bus.
> 
>        Andrew
Okay, understand it. thanks Andrew for pointing this.
i will check it.