On June 19, 2016 10:27:17 PM MST, Kedareswara rao Appana <appana.durga....@xilinx.com> wrote: >This patch adds support for gmii2rgmii converter >in the macb driver. > >The GMII to RGMII IP core provides the >Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface >(RGMII) between Ethernet physical media devices >And the Gigabit Ethernet controller. >This core can switch dynamically between the >Three different speed modes of operation (10/100/1000 Mb/s). >MDIO interface is used to set operating speed of Ethernet MAC. > >Signed-off-by: Kedareswara rao Appana <appa...@xilinx.com> >--- >--> Tried to include this Coverter support in the >PHY layer but it won't fit into the PHY framework as the >coverter won't have vaild vendor/Device id registers. >--> The Converter has only one register (16) that need's >to be programmed with the external phy negotiated speed. >--> The converter won't follow the Standard MII(ieee 802.3 clause 22). >--> Will appreciate if someone can help on adding this coverter support
With the fixed PHY emulated PHY and registering a link_update callback (see drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c for an example), you could read specific registers which indicates link parameters and update the PHY device with these. How exactly is this converter working? -- Florian
