On 03/02/2013 10:36 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2013/2/21 Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de>: >> On 02/21/2013 07:46 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> 2013/2/21 Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de>: >>>> On 02/19/2013 04:44 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>>>> There is b53 PHY driver for Broadcom switches some may want to use one >>>>> bcm47xx platform. We still don't use b53 as default, but let's at least >>>>> allow switching to it. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com> >>>>> --- >>>>> As alternative we could use @!PACKAGE_kmod-switch in DEPENDS, but sure >>>>> if it makes difference to anyone? >>>> >>>> Could we wait with this patch till there is a switch driver that could >>>> be configured by swconfig? @!PACKAGE_kmod-switch will not work because >>>> for some time we probably need both packages when not all drivers are >>>> converted. >>> >>> I believe there already is a proper driver: b53. Don't I understand >>> something? >>> >>> It works fine for my BCM53125 switch. >>> >> Yes it works with the switches, but not with the ethernet drivers these >> switches are connected to. > > Hauke, > > Could you help me understanding that? ;) I'm not sure, what do we need > to implement in b53 to start switching to it? I've compared b53 with > rtl8367 and rtl8367b (just some random ones) and I can't see what can > be missing in b53. > I added Jonas, he is the expert on this topic.
In b53_mdio.c a phy driver is registered. Now the Ethernet driver has to use this phy driver like described in Documentation/networking/phy.txt. One driver using b53 is drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c and it also got some additional patches in OpenWrt like this: https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/brcm63xx/patches-3.8/447-bcm63xx_enet_add_b53_support.patch . b53 should work without modifications if bgmac and the other Ethernet drivers are using it. Hauke _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
