Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2016, 16:33 +0200 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> On Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:29:43 PM CEST Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > +
> > + - micrel,fiber-mode: If present the PHY is configured to operate in fiber
> > mode
> > +
> > + Some PHYs, such as the KSZ8041FTL variant, support fiber mode,
> > enabled
> > + by the FXEN boot strapping pin. It can't be determined from the PHY
> > + registers whether the PHY is in fiber mode, so this boolean device
> > tree
> > + property can be used to describe it.
> > +
> > + In fiber mode, auto-negotiation is disabled and the PHY can only
> > work in
> > + 100base-fx (full and half duplex) modes.
> >
>
> Could the generic "phy-mode" property used for this, to avoid the need for
> definingn a custom property?
According to ethernet.txt, that property currently describes the
internal interface:
- phy-mode: string, operation mode of the PHY interface; supported values are
"mii", "gmii", "sgmii", "qsgmii", "tbi", "rev-mii", "rmii", "rgmii",
"rgmii-id",
"rgmii-rxid", "rgmii-txid", "rtbi", "smii", "xgmii"; this is now a de-facto
standard property;
In this case I have a phy-mode = "rmii" on the MAC. Wouldn't setting
phy-mode = "fiber" on the phy be confusing since for the internal
interface it should be "rmii"?
regards
Philipp
