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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: John Rama <john.rama01@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DSA: external phy address and port number of switch conflicts
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:38:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181214083804.GD3703@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C12F555.2070305@gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:12:05PM -0500, John Rama wrote:
> Dear DSA experts
> 
> My name is John.
> 
> I'm working for our custom board which has the Marvel 88e5050 ethernet switch
> as shown below, and trying to make the system works using DSA subsystem.

88e5050 is a new switch to me. So i don't know anything about its
register layout.

> I found one problem and have a question.
> 
> - System
>     - i.MX6 and Marvel 88e5050 Switch(PHY addr is 0x10)
>     - port1-5 has integrated PHY
>      - port7 is connected to Marvel 88e1510 PHY(PHY addr is 0x1)
> 
>                            0x10
>     +------------+         +-----------------+
>     |            |         | Marvel 88e5050  |
>     |            | RGMII   |           port1 |
>     |   IMX6     +---------+ port6           |
>     |            |         |           port2 |
>     |            | MDIO    |                 |
>     |            +-+-------+           port3 |
>     |            | |       |                 |
>     +------------+ |       |           port4 |
>                    |       |                 |
>                  +-+-+     |           port5 |
>                  |   |SGMII|                 |
>                  |PHY|-----| port7           |
>                  |   |     |                 |
>                  +---+     +-----------------+
>               Marvel 88e1510
>                    0x1                        
>     I'm using a little bit old kernel,4.1.15.

Since you have the switch in single address mode, i don't see why this
should not work. But as Florian said, please update to a new kernel,
and swap to using the new binding with the properties inside the IMX
MDIO bus.

    Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-14  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-14  0:12 DSA: external phy address and port number of switch conflicts John Rama
2018-12-14  5:08 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-12-17 22:55   ` John Rama
2018-12-17 23:03     ` Florian Fainelli
2018-12-18 18:55       ` John Rama
2018-12-14  8:38 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-12-14 16:24 ` Vivien Didelot
2018-12-14 16:31   ` John Rama
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-13 23:51 John Rama

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