[U-Boot-Users] AT91SAM9260EK with KS8721 PHY

[Sander Vermin <sander@vermin.nl>]

Stelian Pop schreef:
> Le lundi 07 avril 2008 ? 15:16 +0200, Sander Vermin a ?crit :
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a U-Boot from your git tree with the AT91 patches. 
>> My board is a custom board with a KS8721 instead of the DM9161 network 
>> PHY chip. This is the same chip as Olimex used on their development board.
>>
>> Olimex build a U-Boot for their board, they did some code hacking on 
>> u-boot. As far as I know they did the following to get the ethernet up 
>> and running. [1] This is in the board/at91sam9260ek/dm9161a.c file
>>     
>
> Are the changes limited to recognizing the MICREL_* phy id 
>   
>> On the latest git version with the AT91 patches the ethernet driver is 
>> called macb??!!
>>     
>
> Yes.
>
>   
>> Do you know how I can get this working? (as hack and in the future more 
>> clean)
>>     
>
> Did you test it as is ? From what I see in the code, the macb driver
> doesn't care much about the PHY type...
>
> Stelian.
>   
I did test it, u-boot says no PHY present. I had to change from RMII 
mode to MII mode due to my hardware design.

Regards,

Sander