Re: [net-next,PATCH 4/4] dt-bindings: mdio-ipq4019: add clock support

[Robert Marko]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 10:04 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 7/2/2020 12:18 PM, Robert Marko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:38 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>> +  clock-frequency:
> >>> +    default: 100000000
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> >> IEEE 802.3 says the default should be 2.5MHz. Some PHYs will go
> >> faster, but 100MHz seems unlikely!
> > This MDIO controller has an internal divider, by default its set for
> > 100MHz clock.
> > In IPQ4019 MDIO clock is not controllable but in IPQ6018 etc it's controllable.
> > That is the only combination I have currently seen used by Qualcomm.
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> Not sure I understand here, the 'clock-frequency' is supposed to denote
> the MDIO bus output clock frequency, that is the frequency at which all
> MDIO devices are going to operate at. Is this 100MHz a clock that feeds
> into the MDIO block and get internally divided by a programmable
> register to obtain an output MDIO clock?
Yes, in this case that 100MHz comes from the GCC clock controller and
is then internally divided by the MDIO.
I do not know what is the actual output MDIO bus frequency as
datasheet only denotes that MDC divide
bits in the mode register are set for 100MHz incoming clock.
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> Florian