Hi Sebastian, On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:38:58PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > This patch series deals with a removing a IP feature that can be found > on all currently supported Marvell Ethernet IP (pxa168_eth, mv643xx_eth, > mvneta). The MAC IP allows to automatically perform PHY auto-negotiation > without software interaction. > > However, this feature (a) fundamentally clashes with the way libphy works > and (b) is unable to deal with quirky PHYs that require special treatment. > In this series, pxa168_eth driver is rewritten to completely disable that > feature and properly deal with libphy provided PHYs. The other two drivers > are suspect to future patch sets, also removing the code related with it. > > Currently, the patches are based on next-20141009 and will be resent once > v3.18-rc1 drops. This is a Request-For-Test on both BG2Q and MMP/gplug as I tested the series on a BG2Q, it worked well. Antoine > these are the current users of pxa168_eth. A branch with this patches on > top of next-20141009 can be found at > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hesselba/linux-berlin.git devel/bg2-bg2cd-eth-v1 > > It would be great to get a Tested-byfrom MMP guys on gplug - if they > have that board somewhere. Also, BG2Q (Antoine) needs a phy-connection-type > property. My guess is that, if it is using internal PHY, it is "mii", too. -- Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
