[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1 v3] ppc4xx: Add support for GPCS, SGMII and M88E1112 PHY

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Thursday 04 September 2008, Ben Warren wrote:
> I like the idea very much, but am not sure about the implementation.
> This problem has been around for a while (just search the archives for
> people wondering how to deal with a switch chip connected via rvMII or
> whatever).  The trickiest part of this is how to get the information to
> the driver.  I've always thought that the best way would be for board
> code to initialize each controller through proper C code (i.e. not
> CONFIG macros).  But there's definitely something to be said for doing
> it all through macros, since that's how Kconfig works.  Please have a
> look at the code that Andy Fleming recently submitted for the TSEC
> driver (it's in the main branch now).  He passes a tsec_info_struct into
> each call of tsec_initialize(), allowing all type of custom information
> to go in.  In my mind, that could be generalized to something that more
> than just TSEC, but let's take baby steps.

Yes, this looks like a good approach. Not sure if we should go all the way or 
accept Victors approach for now. Moving to this parameter based 
initialization is a different matter that should really be done soon.

> Incidentally, the term "Fixed PHY" has already been coined for what
> you're calling "PHY-less".  I suggest we standardize.

Yes. Is there already a define available?

> Anyway, I have to go to bed.  Eyes are starting to close and brain's
> sloowwwiing doowwn.

Heh :)

Best regards,
Stefan

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