Steven Stallion wrote:
> Garrett,
>
> First round of hardware testing is complete, and I am putting the
> finishing touches on the link notification bits for dnet.
>
> Something I noticed while checking dladm is that the ifspeed kstat for
> dnet was always reporting 0 for this reference board. Upon further
> inspection, it seems that dnetp->speed is only available if set via
> driver properties for non-mii phy's. (At this point I am assuming that
> mii phy's behave correctly)
>
> Essentially the question is this: should this behavior be fixed now or
> should it wait until after this first putback?
Later is fine. I put the code in for MII. :-)
>
> If this is to be fixed now, I can make a modification to the
> dnet_periodic cyclic function which was added for link notification
> (it would be pretty trivial and involves checking the same registers
> needed for the link notification check).
Oh, well, if its easy, feel free to do it now. :-)
>
> Also, when checking for link notification (and potentially link speed)
> would an mii phy affect how I would check for these values?
> Essentially for the 21143, it is a simple poll on the CSR5 and CSR12
> registers.
Possibly. I need to check the spec to be sure.
-- Garrett
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
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