Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/7] arm64: dts: amlogic: t7: add the ethernet controller

From: Maxime Chevallier

Date: Wed Oct 07 2026 - 09:42:10 EST


On 10/7/26 15:12, Andrew Lunn wrote:

>
> You should only need max-speed when the PHY is broken, says it can do
> more than it actually can do, or when a 1G PHY only has two of the
> four pairs connected to the outside world etc.

We even have a DT binding for that case :)

There's an example here :

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.3-rc5/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml#L348

and the binding is there :

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.3-rc5/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml

Maxime