On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Grant Likely wrote:

On 10/19/07, Li Yang [off-list ref] wrote:

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The SerDes(serializer/deserializer) PHY block is a new SoC block used
in Freescale chips to support multiple serial interfaces, such as PCI
Express, SGMII, SATA.

This looks like board setup behaviour.  Shouldn't setting this up be
the responsibility firmware?  And failing that, I think it should be
done directly by the platform setup function (in other words; make it
a helper function and call it at board setup time).  Besides, you want
to provide guarantees that the board is setup correctly before the
device driver that uses it gets probed.

Cheers,
g.

Upon further review of all this I don't think this belongs in the  
kernel at all.  This is one time setup and should be done in firmware.

- k