Hi Joe, On 27 July 2017 at 15:23, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Mario Six <mario....@gdsys.cc> wrote: >> Hi Simon, >> >> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: >>> Hi Mario, >>> >>> On 14 July 2017 at 05:54, Mario Six <mario....@gdsys.cc> wrote: >>>> From: Dirk Eibach <dirk.eib...@gdsys.cc> >>>> >>>> Implement support for the Marvell Alaska X 88X2242P Integrated Dual-port >>>> and Quad-port Multi-speed Ethernet Transceivers. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <dirk.eib...@gdsys.cc> >>>> Signed-off-by: Mario Six <mario....@gdsys.cc> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> drivers/net/phy/Kconfig | 67 ++++ >>>> drivers/net/phy/Makefile | 1 + >>>> drivers/net/phy/marvell.c | 1 - >>>> drivers/net/phy/mv88x2.c | 846 >>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>> drivers/net/phy/mv88x2.h | 12 + >>>> drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 3 + >>>> include/phy.h | 1 + >>>> 7 files changed, 930 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> create mode 100644 drivers/net/phy/mv88x2.c >>>> create mode 100644 drivers/net/phy/mv88x2.h >>>> >>> >>> We should really be using driver model here. Is the generic phy uclass >>> good enough (generic-phy.h), or do we need a new uclass for Ethernet >>> PHY? >>> >> >> Wouldn't we also need a uclass for MDIO/MII interfaces then? I don't know the >> network subsystem too well, so I can't really tell where a ethernet phy >> uclass >> (or a MDIO uclass for that matter) would interface with the rest of it. > > The reason I've avoided implementing the uclass for phys so far is > that the DTs of various boards are quite different in how they relate > MDIO, PHY, and ETH. I suspect we'll end up needing some sort of ETH / > platform / board specific DT parsing code and some way to hook into > that. >
Do you mean that we cannot have plain PHY driver (e.g. for MII) that works with multiple bords? Don't we have something similar already? What can we do to move this forward. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
