Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] acpi: Add acpi mdio support code

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On 2018/11/9 7:23, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> I'm just trying to ensure whatever is defined is flexible enough that
> we really can later support everything which DT does. We have PHYs on
> MDIO busses, inside switches, which are on MDIO busses, which are
> inside Ethernet interfaces, etc.
>
> An MDIO bus is very similar to an i2c bus. How is that described in
> ACPI? Anything we can learn from that?

All the documents I've seen are from UEFII/ACPICA and I have not seen any
independent description of MDIO in the ACPI documents. Maybe I missed a
document, too.

I think not all devices need to be described in ACPI. The ACPI defines what
should be included in a device, as well as some special definitions. Our
MDIO
doesn't need a special definition, because it's enough to use a generic ACPI
description. I think that's why MDIO doesn't have a separate description.

Cheers,
Dongsheng




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