Re: micrel ksz8081 RMII phy and clause-22 broadcast
From: Alexander Dahl
Date: Thu Oct 17 2024 - 02:29:36 EST
Hello Andrew,
Am Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 11:43:31PM +0200 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
> > Would be happy if anyone could suggest a path forward here?
>
> The hardware is different, so have a different dts file. You can then
> list the PHY at is real address, which will stop the phantom broadcast
> address PHY being created, and use a phy-handle to point to the real
> PHYs, so when the phantom broadcast PHY is disabled, it does not
> matter.
Yes, I think separate dts is a clean solution, creating those files is
no problem. I just wanted to avoid the additional work for
integrating this into build, bootstrapping scripts, firmware upgrade
etc. O:-)
Thanks for confirming, seriously appreciated. :-)
> I would say that listing multiple PHYS is just an opportunistic hack,
> which might work for simple cases, but soon leads to difficulties as
> the situation gets complex.
Right. Thank you for taking the time to read.
Greets
Alex