I think for switches, that doesn't necessarily hold. ie, mii_attach() for single-PHY devices may work that way, but the weird and wonderful world of embedded switch SoC's doesn't. You're lucky in most instances since the bootloader does give you a mostly-working switch config. But I doubt that's a guarantee on all platforms.
So for those (ethernet) devices, splitting out the mii/mdio stuff and _not_ necessarily presenting a working PHY may be acceptable. For now it's going to be a subset, to having it export an MDIO bus and doing late MII attachment may not be as architecturally "no-no" as I interpret your post. Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
