> What I'm trying to find out is what you think the behaviour should be
> in this case. Are you suggesting we should fall back to what we do now
> which is let the driver do it internally without phylink.
>
> The problem is that if we don't go down the phylink route for everything
> then we /can't/ convert mv88e6xxx to phylink_pcs, because the "serdes"
> stuff will be gone, and the absence of phylink will mean those won't be
> called e.g. to power up the serdes.
I'm pretty sure non-DT systems have never used SERDES. They are using
a back to back PHY, or maybe RGMII. So long as this keeps working, we
can convert to phylink.
And i have such a amd64 system, using back to back PHYs so i can test
it does not regress.
Andrew
