Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] arm64: dts: qcom: nord: Add Ethernet support

[Shawn Guo]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 04:01:03PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 11/1/26 9:04 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > From: Mohd Ayaan Anwar <mohd.anwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Describe both Nord 10-Gbps Ethernet controllers, including their XPCS and
> > SerDes blocks, clocks, resets, power domains, interconnects, SMMU streams
> > and DMA queues.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mohd Ayaan Anwar <mohd.anwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shengchao.guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +	phys = <&serdes0>;
> > +	phy-names = "serdes";
> 
> I believe this holds for both GearVM and embedded, so you can move
> it to the common DTSI

No, this doesn't apply to GearVM. The SerDes is owned entirely by the SCMI
server firmware for GearVM variant. LDOs, clkref, reset, and the per-speed
PLL/RX/TX programming driven by an SCMI perf domain whose level is
the link speed.

Shawn