On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:22:40 -0800 (PST) Ben Warren wrote: > Thanks Vitaly! > > --- Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, you do not miss - this is an issue. In fact MDIO > > bus was changed for numeric for gianfar-stuff, and > > has been remaining string for fs_enet. I think it > > makes sense to average this up, and will try to do > > that once will get 8349-mitx which is gianfar+ fixed > > user. > > > > The point is that fixed should be updated to numeric > > MDIO address encoding. This has to come through > > netdev, so I'll try to get it fixed by the next > > merge window. > > > > -- > > Sincerely, Vitaly > > > > Ideally (for me anyway), we'd be able to pass some > fixed phy information via the device tree, for example > speed and duplexity. This way a board could, for > example, connect to one switch via RvMII @100FD and > another via GMII @1000FD. Having parameters as > numeric limits this capability, but presumably a > simple encoding scheme could be make it work. > > I'm sure you've already thought of this, though...
Yes, I was thinking about something like 0:1001 or 0:101 where 1 at the end respects duplexity. Putting it into devtree is good but we'll need to unify the interface first. -- Sincerely, Vitaly
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