On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:05, Andy Fleming wrote: > On Oct 11, 2005, at 05:57, Stefan Nickl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > about a year ago we resorted to using port pin MDIO in this situation > > for the FCCs because the fcc_enet driver and the gianfar driver live > > in separate worlds, so to speak. > > > > But in the meantime, Andy Fleming was very active regarding the PHY > > abstraction layer. I still haven't seen patches that migrate fcc_enet > > to using this layer, but the gianfar driver seems to use this code > > now. > > > The work to migrate the new fs_enet driver to use the TSEC MDIO is in > progress. I have a few other things I'm working on right now, and > I've been having some hardware issues, but I've already done most of > the work to get the FCC to use the TSEC's MDIO bus. > > > > So I'd say quick solution: use TSEC1 MDIO for TSECs and cpm port pins > > for FCC, clean solution: change fcc_enet to use the PHY abstraction > > layer. > > > I'd say it depends on how long until your hardware is ready. You > might want to wire up the cpm IO pins, just in case. I have yet to > actually get the fs_enet driver to send packets on the 8560, so > there's no telling how long it will be before that driver works on 8541. > > Andy >
Thank you guys for the quick answers. We already thought of additionally wireing up the cpm IO pins to have some kind of backup ;) We expect the hardware to be available in february/march next year so I guess there's pretty much time. Gerhard
