Re: [PATCH] net: phy: DP83811: Add support for the phy

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 12:49:53 EST


On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:56:55AM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> All
>
> On 05/08/2018 09:11 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > Add support for the DP83811 phy by extending
> > the DP83822 driver to recognize the PHY IDs.
> >
> > The DP83811 supports both rgmii and sgmii interfaces.
> > There are 2 part numbers for this the DP83811R does not
> > reliably support the SGMII interface but the DP83811S will.
> >
> > There is not a way to differentiate these parts from the
> > hardware or register set. So this is controlled via the DT
> > to indicate which phy mode is required. Or the part can be
> > strapped to a certain interface.
> >
> > Data sheet can be found here:
> > http://www.ti.com/product/DP83TC811S-Q1/description
> > http://www.ti.com/product/DP83TC811R-Q1/description
> >
>
> I am withdrawing this patch for comment.
> Some of the future features have varying register definitions between the DP83811
> and DP83822

Hi Dan

It might be worth talking to the ASIC engineers and the
test/qualification engineers. There are sometime undocumented
registers for testing. You might be able to identify the exact device
from these registers.

Andrew