Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add phylib support code for mdio

["Yankejian (Hackim Yim)" <yankejian@huawei.com>]

On 2015/12/9 3:55, Al Stone wrote:
> On 12/03/2015 03:47 AM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:54:43AM +0800, yankejian wrote:
>>> Add support for getting the PHY devices on an MDIO bus by ACPI.
>>> Currently many of the ethernet drivers are open coding a solution
>>> for reading data out of ACPI to find the correct PHY device.
>>> This patch implements a set of common routines are similar to of_mdio.c
>>>
>> The general conclusion for the ACPI on ARM64 discussion so far has been that
>> things like PHYs should be setup by the firmware before the kernel takes
>> control.
>>
>> I am unsure that this doing it the same way as DT with a different
>> description language is the way to go.
>>
>> Graeme
> I have to agree with Graeme: if this is supposed to be an arm64 server using
> ACPI, please make sure the PHYs/clocks/regulators are set up properly before
> passing control to the kernel.  That's the consensus so far on how this is to
> be done.
>
> This also looks to be using _DSD in ACPI, which is another topic that's still
> under discussion.  What does the ASL look like for these PHYs, as used in this
> patch?
>
Hi Al

The sample of the ASL for these PHYs is below:

                Device (PHY0) {
                        Name (_DSD, Package () {
                                ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
                                Package () {
                                        Package () {"phy-addr", 0},
                                        Package () {"ethernet-phy", "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22"},
                                }
                        })
                }

Best Regards,
yankejian