Hello,
I've been trying to wrap my head around Ethernet auto-negotiation,
vs actual / real packets seen at the MAC layer. I found the relevant
Wikipedia article to be fairly informative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonegotiation
The reason I care is that my Ethernet HW does not allow changing the
flow control setting once the MAC has started (more specifically, once
RX DMA has been enabled).
In nb8800_open(), the code currently works in this order:
nb8800_start_rx(dev);
phy_start(phydev);
The first line enables the MAC (and DMA).
The second enables the PHY and starts auto-negotiation.
This is a problem: I would like for PHY auto-negotiation to be
/complete/ before I enable the MAC.
What is the recommended way to wait for the PHY?
AFAICT, the PHY layer calls back into the eth driver through the
adjust_link() callback registered through of_phy_connect().
It seems like this might be a good place to enable the MAC?
(When some other conditions are true.)
Regards.
