lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <X+ygLXjVd3rr8Vbf@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:43:41 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: micrel: Add KS8851 PHY support

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:53:57PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The KS8851 has a reduced internal PHY, which is accessible through its
> registers at offset 0xe4. The PHY is compatible with KS886x PHY present
> in Micrel switches, except the PHY ID Low/High registers are swapped.

Can you intercept the reads in the KS8851 driver and swap them back
again? The mv88e6xxx driver does something similar. The mv88e6393
family of switches have PHYs with the Marvell OUI but no device ID. So
the code traps these reads and provides an ID.

    Andrew

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ