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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Broadcom PHY support
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:16:39 +1100
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On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:15 -0400, Amy Fong wrote:
> [PATCH] Add Broadcom PHY support
> 
> This patch adds a driver to support the bcm5421s and bcm5461s PHY
> 
> Kernel version:  linux-2.6.18-rc6
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amy Fong 

Some 5421's need special initialisation (see drivers/net/sungem_phy.c),
might be worth having them there too. I was also wondering... for
spidernet, we need to enable the fiber mode on the PHY. Does phylib has
an API for that ?

I'd like to look into moving sungem and spidernet over to phylib.

Ben.