On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Simon Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> +Joe
>
>
> On 16 May 2016 at 23:11, Wenyou Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Use the right phy_connect() prototype for CONFIGF_DM_ETH.
>> Support to get the phy interface from dt and set GMAC_UR.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wenyou Yang <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> This patch is based on the patch set,
>> [PATCH 00/18] at91: Convert Ethernet and LCD to driver model
>>         http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-May/253559.html
>>
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> With this patch, the ethernet works on SAMA5D2 Xplained board.
>> But it includes a lot of #ifdef, I think it is not pretty.
>>
>> What is your opinions?
>
> I believe there is a new PHY interface that might help. I added Joe in
> case he can help.
>
> We should move PHYs to driver model but apparently that is tricky to
> do at present.

This is pretty messy, indeed. The issue is that there is no common way
to define phy connections. Each MAC driver has its own way. I think if
the implementation is this messy, maybe we are better off waiting.

-Joe
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