Re: [PATCH RESEND net] net: phy: xgmiitorgmii: Support generic PHY status read

[Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>]

Hi,

On 09. 03. 19 17:19, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Related to this, I have a query on how the DT node for gmii2rgmii should look.
>> One of the users of gmii2rgmii is Cadence macb driver. In Xilinx tree, we use
>> this piece of code to register this mdiobus:
>> + mdio_np = of_get_child_by_name(np, "mdio");
>> + if (mdio_np) {
>> + of_node_put(mdio_np);
>> + err = of_mdiobus_register(bp->mii_bus, mdio_np);
>> + if (err)
>> + goto err_out_unregister_bus;
>>
>> And the DT node looks like this:
>> ethernet {
>>     phy-mode = "gmii";
>>     phy-handle = <&extphy>;
>>
>>     mdio {
>>         extphy {
>>             reg = <x>;
>>         };
>>         gmii_to_rgmii{
>>             compatible = "xlnx,gmii-to-rgmii-1.0";
>>             phy-handle = <&extphy>;
>>             reg = <x>;
>>         };
>>     };
>> };
> 
> Hi Harini
> 
> You have this setup:
>   
> MAC <==> GMII2RGMII <==> RGMII_PHY
> 
> So you want the MAC phy-handle to point to the gmii_to_rgmii 'PHY'.

That means that MAC should talk to GMII2RGMII bridge as normall talks to
RGMII_PHY and then GMII2RGMII bridge should talk to RGMII_PHY.

Anyway good to read it because that's exactly how we have done it in u-boot.

Thanks,
Michal