On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:45:17PM +0300, Claudiu Manoil wrote:
> ENETC ports can manage the MDIO bus via local register
> interface. However there's also a centralized way
> to manage the MDIO bus, via the MDIO PCIe endpoint
> device integrated by the same root complex that also
> integrates the ENETC ports (eth controllers).
>
> Depending on board design and use case, centralized
> access to MDIO may be better than using local ENETC
> port registers. For instance, on the LS1028A QDS board
> where MDIO muxing is required. Also, the LS1028A on-chip
> switch doesn't have a local MDIO register interface.
>
> The current patch registers the above PCIe endpoint as a
> separate MDIO bus and provides a driver for it by re-using
> the code used for local MDIO access. It also allows the
> ENETC port PHYs to be managed by this driver if the local
> "mdio" node is missing from the ENETC port node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew
