On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Frank Prepelica<frank.prepel...@ubidyne.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > we removed the ethernet PHYs (MARVELL) from our customized board (based on > MPC8313ERDB) and > connected the CPU Ethernet lines directly to a FPGA which is now emulating > the PHY. But the ifconfig > command cannot find that eth device anymore. Does the emulated PHY needs to > provide MDIO > information that the ETH device can be found again?
No, you just need to make sure that the Ethernet driver is able to support fixed speed MII links without a PHY. It's trivial to do, but not all drivers support it. Search for "current-speed" in drivers/net/fec_mpc52xx.c for an example. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
