From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:50:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110340214.32524.32.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308194229.41c23707.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:42 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:14:16 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > I'll have a closer look when I find some time, see if it makes sense to
> > adapt sungem or not.
>
> Especially because of the Broadcom PHYs I bet it doesn't.
>
> Too many chips have to reset the MAC, or do other fancy stuff
> when programming the PHY to make this genphy thing very useful.
Oh, I think genphy is just a generic driver, but his layer has hooks for
other PHY drivers (wasn't it based on sungem_phy in the first place ?)
I discussed several steps of the design with Andy, the idea was to have
something a bit like sungem_phy.c with addditional common library for
doing the link polling & fallback stuff etc... that could be easily
shared by drivers.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 1:47 RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II Andy Fleming
2005-03-09 2:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-09 3:42 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-09 3:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-09 17:24 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-10 23:01 ` James Chapman
2005-03-10 23:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-10 23:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-10 23:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-15 0:41 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-15 19:18 ` James Chapman
2005-03-18 23:14 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-24 21:48 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-25 22:56 ` Andy Fleming
2005-03-28 23:45 ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-29 4:11 ` Problem when accessing variables Hiep Tran
[not found] ` <42625DDB.4090600@katalix.com>
2005-05-10 17:04 ` RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II Andy Fleming
2005-05-12 6:08 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-25 23:00 ` Kumar Gala
2005-03-09 17:17 ` Andy Fleming
2005-05-26 18:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-05-26 18:45 ` Andy Fleming
2005-05-31 17:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-01 20:45 ` Andy Fleming
2005-06-01 21:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-01 22:42 ` Andy Fleming
2005-06-01 21:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-01 22:36 ` Andy Fleming
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