Re: [PATCH net-next v8 2/3] arm64: dts: nuvoton: Add Ethernet nodes

[Joey Lu]

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for the clarification.

In our design, the Ethernet PHYs are located on the base boards, not on 
the MA35D1 SOM.

The SOM base board routes two RGMII interfaces from the SOM to two 
external PHYs on the carrier board.

On the MA35D1 IoT board, there is no separate SOM and carrier board - it 
is a single integrated board.

I will update the DTS accordingly so that no PHY nodes appear in .dtsi.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Joey

Andrew Lunn 於 1/19/2026 11:22 PM 寫道:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 03:33:40PM +0800, Joey Lu wrote:
> > Add GMAC nodes for our MA35D1 development boards:
> > two RGMII interfaces for SOM board, and one RGMII
> > and one RMII interface for IoT board.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joey Lu <a0987203069@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   .../boot/dts/nuvoton/ma35d1-iot-512m.dts      | 12 +++++
> >   .../boot/dts/nuvoton/ma35d1-som-256m.dts      | 10 ++++
> >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/nuvoton/ma35d1.dtsi       | 54 +++++++++++++++++++
> I'm somewhat confused with your naming here.
>
> A SoM generally needs a carrier board. So the SoM is described as a
> .dtsi file, which the carrier board .dts file can then include.
>
> Where are the PHYs? Sometimes the PHYs are on the SoM, sometimes they
> are on the carrier board. If they are not actually on the SoM, the
> PHYs should not be listed as part of the SoM.
>
>       Andrew