Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: imx: mach-imx6ul: remove 14x14 EVK specific PHY fixup

[Shawn Guo]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Remove board specific PHY fixup introduced by commit:
> 
> | 709bc0657fe6f9f5 ("ARM: imx6ul: add fec MAC refrence clock and phy fixup init")
> 
> This fixup addresses boards with a specific configuration: a KSZ8081RNA
> PHY with attached clock source to XI (Pin 8) of the PHY equal to 50MHz.
> 
> For the KSZ8081RND PHY, the meaning of the reg 0x1F bit 7 is different
> (compared to the KSZ8081RNA). A set bit means:
> 
> - KSZ8081RNA: clock input to XI (Pin 8) is 50MHz for RMII
> - KSZ8081RND: clock input to XI (Pin 8) is 25MHz for RMII
> 
> In other configurations, for example a KSZ8081RND PHY or a KSZ8081RNA
> with 25Mhz clock source, the PHY will glitch and stay in not recoverable
> state.
> 
> It is not possible to detect the clock source frequency of the PHY. And
> it is not possible to automatically detect KSZ8081 PHY variant - both
> have same PHY ID. It is not possible to overwrite the fixup
> configuration by providing proper device tree description. The only way
> is to remove this fixup.
> 
> If this patch breaks network functionality on your board, fix it by
> adding PHY node with following properties:
> 
> 	ethernet-phy@x {
> 		...
> 		micrel,led-mode = <1>;
> 		clocks = <&clks IMX6UL_CLK_ENET_REF>;
> 		clock-names = "rmii-ref";
> 		...
> 	};
> 
> The board which was referred in the initial patch is already fixed.
> See: arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6ul-14x14-evk.dtsi
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.