Hi Andrew, On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:20:00PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote: > > SFP ports do not necessarily need to have an Ethernet PHY between the > > SoC and the actual physical port. However, the driver currently makes > > the "phy" property mandatory, contrary to what is stated in the Device > > Tree binding. > > > > To allow handling the PPv2 controller on those boards, this patch makes > > the PHY optional, and aligns the PPv2 driver on its device tree > > documentation. > > It is an architectural question... > > but with the boards i have with an SFF port, i actually use a > fixed-phy to represent the SFF. Then nothing special is needed.
I was not aware of the fixed-phy, that might work for us here. Thanks for the hint! > Also, Russell King posted his phylink patches. Once accepted, you are > going to want to re-write some of this to make use of that code. And there's that as well. Thanks! Antoine -- Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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