Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add Luckfox Omni3576 Board support

[John Clark <inindev@gmail.com>]

On 5/4/25 8:45 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> What PHY is it? Are you using the correct PHY driver for it, or
>>> genphy?
>>>
>> MAE0621A-Q3C
>> http://www.maxio-tech.com/product/12928/12929/12930/12931.html
> 
> Mainline does not have a PHY driver for this. So nothing is
> controlling the delays in the PHY. So what you have above works by
> luck, and is likely to break once there is a PHY driver. So i suggest
> you drop the Ethernet nodes for the moment.
> 
The chip claims to be a pin-for-pin clone of the rtl8211f. Empirical 
testing has demonstrated it to be extremely stable. Without networking 
IO the board is very difficult to develop against. I can disable 
networking if that is the consensus.

> There does appear to be a PHY driver here:
> 
> https://github.com/CoreELEC/linux-amlogic/blob/5.15.153_202501/drivers/net/phy/maxio.c
> 
> but it has a number of things wrong with it. You might want to search
> around and see if there are any cleaner versions around, or if anybody
> is working on upstreaming a driver for this PHY.
> 
> 	Andrew