[PATCH v5 2/6] net: stmmac: sun8i: force select external PHY when no internal one

Ondřej Jirman megous at megous.com
Tue May 21 09:56:31 UTC 2019


Hello Sergei,

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:27:24PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 21.05.2019 2:50, megous at megous.com wrote:
> 
> > From: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io>
> > 
> > The PHY selection bit also exists on SoCs without an internal PHY; if it's
> > set to 1 (internal PHY, default value) then the MAC will not make use of
> > any PHY such SoCs.
>          ^ "on" or "with" missing?

It's missing 'on'.

thank you,
	Ondrej

> > This problem appears when adapting for H6, which has no real internal PHY
> > (the "internal PHY" on H6 is not on-die, but on a co-packaged AC200 chip,
> > connected via RMII interface at GPIO bank A).
> > 
> > Force the PHY selection bit to 0 when the SOC doesn't have an internal PHY,
> > to address the problem of a wrong default value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io>
> > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Jirman <megous at megous.com>
> [...]
> 
> MBR, Sergei


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