netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] net-next: stmmac: support future possible different internal phy mode

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Date:   Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:48:15 +0200
From:   Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com,
        wens@...e.org, linux@...linux.org.uk, peppe.cavallaro@...com,
        alexandre.torgue@...com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        icenowy@...c.io
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net-next: stmmac: support future possible different
 internal phy mode

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 07/28/2017 07:44 AM, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:36:00PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >>>> I've probably asked this before: Does the internal PHY use a different
> >>>> PHY ID in registers 2 and 3?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> yes
> >>>
> >>> reg2: 0x0044
> >>> reg3: 0X1500
> > 
> > Copy/paste error, its 1400
> > 
> >>
> >> So this is not about loading the correct PHY driver. You can already
> >> do this based on the PHY IDs...
> >>
> >> This is about selecting which PHY to use. Internal or External?	
> >>
> >>      Andrew
> > 
> > It is too late when we know the PHY ID.
> 
> > We need to set a syscon for choosing external/internal PHY.
> > So we can rely only on DT.
> 
> Since the Device Tree needs to be correct to identify which PHY to use
> (internal or external), if you use the standard compatible string for
> the PHY that contains its OUI, e.g:
> 
> compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0044.1400", "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22"
> 
> then you can have your Ethernet MAC identify whether this is an internal
> PHY by having a list of compatible strings to match against.

So basicly, I replace sun8i-h3-ephy by ethernet-phy-id0044.1400 and it is good ?

> 
> Corentin, can you make sure you copy netdev, Andrew and myself on the
> next submissions so we don't have to keep track of seemingly identical
> threads (this one + the rockchip dwmac changes) and we can work towards
> one solution?

Ok

Thanks
Corentin Labbe