Re: Using fixed_phy with gianfar

Thanks Vitaly!

--- Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

No, you do not miss - this is an issue. In fact MDIO
bus was changed for numeric for gianfar-stuff, and
has been remaining string for fs_enet. I think it
makes sense to average this up, and will try to do
that once will get 8349-mitx which is gianfar+ fixed
user.

The point is that fixed should be updated to numeric
MDIO address encoding. This has to come through
netdev, so I'll try to get it fixed by the next
merge window.

--
Sincerely, Vitaly

Ideally (for me anyway), we'd be able to pass some
fixed phy information via the device tree, for example
speed and duplexity.  This way a board could, for
example, connect to one switch via RvMII @100FD and
another via GMII @1000FD.  Having parameters as
numeric limits this capability, but presumably a
simple encoding scheme could be make it work.  

I'm sure you've already thought of this, though...

cheers,
Ben