Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 4 authors, 2024-01-05

Re: [PATCH] net: phy: marvell-88q2xxx: add driver for the Marvell 88Q2220 PHY

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2024-01-05 16:07:02
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Hi Andrew,
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Do we need to reduce the init sequence? Since this is all undocumented
magic which nobody understands, it would be safer to just keep with
the Marvell vendor crap code dump. Unless we really do need to change
it.
You are right, it would be safer to use the vendor code. But when
looking at the vendor code, the init sequence changed a lot from rev. B0
to rev. B1 of the PHY. There are some additional register writes, but
mostly the order of the register writes changed. I don't know if this is
going to be worse in the future. Maintaining different revisions will
probably take some effort or at least result in bloated code. We probably
don't need all of the init sequence. I'm not sure how to deal with it,
keeping the init sequence at a minimum is probably a good idea.
Is the revision in the lower nibble of the ID register? We can handle
them as different PHYs, each gets its own init code, and share what
can be shared in helper functions.

	Andrew
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