On August 17, 2016 8:27:19 PM PDT, Timur Tabi <ti...@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>>> emac_sgmii: ethernet-phy@410400 {
>>> compatible = "qcom,qdf2432-emac-phy";
>>> reg = <0x0 0x00410400 0x0 0x100>;
>>> interrupts = <0 0x104 0>;
>>> };
>>>
>>
>> Is this register range relative to the emac0 node here, or is this
>> really a separate node, within the same adress space as your emac0
>node?
>
>It's a separate node within the same address space. We can't guarantee
>
>that it's adjacent to any other EMAC register -- it could be anywhere
>in
>memory. 0x00410400 is the real physical address of those registers.
Ok
>
>> Answer largely depends on whether your device is really located
>outside
>> of the emac, if it located outside, then a platform device matching
>the
>> compatible string would get you what you want. If the emac_sgmii
>block
>> is a sub-block within the EMAC, then a few things need fixing:
>>
>> - your emac_sgmii node should be a sub-node of the emac node, not a
>sibling
>> - the emac0 node should have a "ranges" property that indicates how
>to
>> translate the sub-nodes' "reg" property based on the base register
>> address of the emac0 block
>> - you would have to call of_platform_populate from the EMAC driver to
>> ensure that the emac_sgmii child node and therefore platform device
>gets
>> created
>
>Even if the emac_sgmii block were a sub-block, wouldn't it conflict
>with
>the ethernet-phy@4 node? The #address-cells and #size-cells properties
>
>cannot be valid for both the emac_sgmii and ethernet-phy@4 nodes.
These two properties apply to subnodes within the emac0 and emac_sgmii nodes,
this is standard DT stuff here.
The larger issue is that the emac_sgmii node in the form you posted is going to
be backed by a platform device in Linux while you want a PHY device with a reg
property that describes a MDIO address (#address-cells = 1, #size-cells = 0).
IIRC the amd xgbe driver mainline had a similar design but still implemented a
PHY device anyway although it may not have been using Device Tree. It should
still be possible to implement a PHY driver that you manually register and bind
to its device_node pointer such that of_phy_find_device and friends still work.
You would do this from the emac_sgmii platform device driver and parent devices
in a way that satisfy the PHY device driver lifecycle as well.
Hope this helps.
NB: another way to do this is to give the SGMII PHY device a MDIO address,
provided that it has one, and you pass the memory mapped register range as a
syscon property pointing to the emac_sgmii register range. This is not really
clean through.
--
Florian
