netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

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Message-ID: <1374092034.7622.34.camel@envy.home>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:13:54 -0700
From:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pch_gbe: Add MinnowBoard support

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 17:58 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> The MinnowBoard uses an AR803x PHY with the PCH GBE which requires
> special handling. Use the MinnowBoard PCI Subsystem ID to detect this
> and add a pci_device_id.driver_data structure and functions to handle
> platform setup.
> 
> The AR803x does not implement the RGMII 2ns TX clock delay in the trace
> routing nor via strapping. Add a detection method for the board and the
> PHY and enable the TX clock delay via the registers.
> 
> This PHY will hibernate without link for 10 seconds. Ensure the PHY is
> awake for probe and then disable hibernation. A future improvement would
> be to convert pch_gbe to using PHYLIB and making sure we can wake the
> PHY at the necessary times rather than permanently disabling it.

If anyone is following along to see where this goes, I have made this
change independent of the minnowboard platform drivers and have resent
it with all the collected feedback on to netdev following the netdev
rules I was recently made aware of. Please follow along there if you are
interested.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel


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