From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Maen Suleiman <maen@marvell.com>,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Ian Molton <ian.molton@codethink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [4/4] arm: mvebu: enable Ethernet controllers on Armada 370/XP eval boards
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 10:12:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121104101212.33449081@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121104020311.GA26747@obsidianresearch.com>
Hello Jason,
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:03:11 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> We've been using the patches from Ian Molton for the mv643xx driver
> that make it use the more standard, separately described MDIO
> bus..
[...]
> Where the MDIO bus is explicit, the PHY, its address and parameters
> are explicit - the PHY has an of_node pointer - and phy-handle is used
> to connect them.
>
> I'm not sure having the MDIO bus as a distinct top level item is
> great, considering how the registers overlap.. It might be better
> to put it under the egiga0 block? But that is a minor nit :)
Thanks for your comment. I'll see what I can come up with to make the
phy a separate DT entity.
Thanks!
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-04 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-26 10:03 [PATCH v4] Network driver for the Armada 370 and Armada XP ARM Marvell SoCs Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-26 10:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-30 12:07 ` Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2012-10-30 12:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-31 11:12 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-10-26 10:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] net: mvneta: update MAINTAINERS file for the mvneta maintainers Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-26 10:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm: mvebu: add Ethernet controllers using mvneta driver for Armada 370/XP Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-30 4:19 ` Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2012-10-30 8:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-26 10:03 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm: mvebu: enable Ethernet controllers on Armada 370/XP eval boards Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-04 2:03 ` [4/4] " Jason Gunthorpe
2012-11-04 9:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-11-12 17:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-30 9:51 ` [PATCH v4] Network driver for the Armada 370 and Armada XP ARM Marvell SoCs Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-02 22:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-03 11:53 ` Francois Romieu
2012-11-12 17:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-13 11:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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