On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ken Ma <[email protected]> > > This patch adds a separate driver for the MDIO interface of the > Marvell Ethernet controllers based on driver model. There are two > reasons to have a separate driver rather than including it inside > the MAC driver itself: > *) The MDIO interface is shared by all Ethernet ports, so a driver > must guarantee non-concurrent accesses to this MDIO interface. The > most logical way is to have a separate driver that handles this > single MDIO interface, used by all Ethernet ports. > *) The MDIO interface is the same between the existing mv643xx_eth > driver and the new mvneta/mvpp2 driver. Even though it is for now > only used by the mvneta/mvpp2 driver, it will in the future be > used by the mv643xx_eth driver as well. > > This driver supports SMI IEEE for 802.3 Clause 22 and XSMI for IEEE > 802.3 Clause 45. > > This patch also adds device tree binding for marvell MDIO driver. > > Signed-off-by: Ken Ma <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
