From: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@gmail.com>
Cc: Yao Zi <me@ziyao.cc>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
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Longbin Li <looong.bin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: Add support for Spacemit K3 dwmac
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:31:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXABw0zVz8n3jLlm@inochi.infowork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9334905d-d11b-49d4-92b1-61e8cf644f0f@lunn.ch>
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > IIRC, the "phy" clock is used to pass the phy from the mac core, I will
> > double check if it is possible to connect to the phy directly.
>
> Are you saying this is the reference clock output from the MAC being
> fed to the PHY? That would be a clock provider, not a clock consumer.
>
> Or is it the reference clock output from the PHY going to the MAC?
> Then the MAC would be a consumer.
>
> And there are some designs which have a third party generate the
> clock, and both the MAC and the PHY consume it.
>
I have confirmed the clock is directly from the the clock tree and
is consumed only by the PHY. It seems like I have got a wrong
information about this. So let's remove it and let the phy consume
the clock if it use this clock.
Regards,
Inochi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-20 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-20 4:36 [PATCH net-next 0/3] riscv: spacemit: Add ethernet support for K3 Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 4:36 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: Add support for Spacemit K3 dwmac Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 10:55 ` Yao Zi
2026-01-20 11:39 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 13:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-20 22:31 ` Inochi Amaoto [this message]
2026-01-20 4:36 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: stmmac: platform: Add snps,dwmac-5.40a IP compatible string Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 4:36 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: stmmac: Add glue layer for Spacemit K3 SoC Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 4:56 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-01-20 5:05 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-21 12:03 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-01-21 22:36 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-21 23:56 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 11:13 ` Yao Zi
2026-01-20 11:28 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-01-20 11:43 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 11:32 ` Yixun Lan
2026-01-20 11:41 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-20 13:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-20 22:36 ` Inochi Amaoto
2026-01-21 1:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-21 1:37 ` Inochi Amaoto
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