netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: phy: realtek: add support for the 2.5Gbps PHY in RTL8125

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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:20:29 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: phy: realtek: add support for the
 2.5Gbps PHY in RTL8125

> I have a contact in Realtek who provided the information about
> the vendor-specific registers used in the patch. I also asked for
> a method to auto-detect 2.5Gbps support but have no feedback so far.
> What may contribute to the problem is that also the integrated 1Gbps
> PHY's (all with the same PHY ID) differ significantly from each other,
> depending on the network chip version.

Hi Heiner

Some of the PHYs embedded in Marvell switches have an OUI, but no
product ID. We work around this brokenness by trapping the reads to
the ID registers in the MDIO bus controller driver and inserting the
switch product ID. The Marvell PHY driver then recognises these IDs
and does the right thing.

Maybe you can do something similar here?

      Andrew