Hi Andrew, On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Most of the init sequence of a PHY of the package is common to all PHYs > > in the package, thus we use the SMI broadcast feature which enables us > > to propagate a write in one register of one PHY to all PHYs in the > > package. > > Hi Quinten > > Could you say a bit more about the broadcast. Does the SMI broadcast > go to all PHY everywhere on an MDIO bus, or only all PHYs within one > package? I'm just thinking about the case you need two of these > packages to cover 8 switch ports. > Ah sorry, that wasn't very explicit. That's a feature on the PHY side so my wildest guess is that it wouldn't impact any other PHY outside of this package. Affecting any other PHY on the bus is counter-intuitive to me but I'll ask the HW engineers for confirmation. Thanks, Quentin
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