Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] net: stmmac: dwmac-sun8i: Allow runtime AC200/AC300 phy selection

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM Andrew Lunn [off-list ref] wrote:

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The normal way to do this is phy_find_first().

Sure, but there are problems with that approach here.

The initialization sequences are rather different and the devices
won't be visible on the mdio bus until after they are initialized.

The resets will be specific to either the AC200 or AC300 so we
need to choose the correct PHY based on the efuse value rather
than a mdio bus scan to avoid a circular dependency essentially.

AC200: i2c based reset/init sequence
AC300: mdio based reset/init sequence

O.K. so you need to post more, so we get to see the complete
problem/solution. It seems to me, AC200 and AC300 are not compatible,
so should have different compatible strings. That might be part of the
solution. But it is too early to say.

They will need to use different reset drivers but the mac part is
largely the same AFAIU. The mdio part is similar after initialization
as well I think.

These are the vendor docs(I only found chinese version so far) that
have some more details on the AC200 and AC300 EPHY's:
http://file.whycan.com/files/202304/V85x/Linux_EMAC_%e5%bc%80%e5%8f%91%e6%8c%87%e5%8d%97.pdf

Translated important sections:

For AC200:
ARM communicates with AC200 through TWI, initializes EPHY, and then
MAC accesses the MDIO bus.
EPHY, PWM module provides an internal 25M clock to EPHY.

For AC300:
ARM communicates with AC300 through MDIO bus, initializes EPHY, and
then MAC accesses EPHY through MDIO bus. PWM module provides an
internal
25M clock to EPHY.

So the MAC to EPHY connection is more or less the same AFAIU,
but the initialization is quite different.

        Andrew