On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:43:36PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > Hey all, > > As part of working on "allyesconfig" support I ran into the following > problem. Both drivers/net/phy/mscc.c and drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c > implement support for the VSC8584 PHY. The vitesse.c driver is much > older and only had VSC8584 support added for a specific Freescale > Layerscape platform whereas mscc.c is modern and been updated with > newer PHYs as well. And we need one driver to support this phy, not two. > I am inclined to remove support from vitesse.c. However, only 4 > platforms use the PHY_MSCC driver and everyone else uses PHY_VITESSE. > > I'm cc'ing all of the board maintainers (other than PowerPC platforms) > that use PHY_VITESEE today to see what their feedback is on which way to > go here. I'm ignoring PowerPC because that can just stay on the > PHY_VITESSE driver based on timing of changes in git log.
The mpfs icicle board is using PHY_VITESSE because the phy it has (vsc8662) is only supported by that driver. Same in Linux for that phy. We've got no users of the model you're talking about. FWIW, I checked our "in house" linux config and it uses the generic phy driver, rather than the vitesse one. I wonder if we can get away with that in U-Boot too?
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