Re: [PATCH v2 16/24] net: phy: Add Sanechips ZX5201 PHY support

From: Navid Ghahremani

Date: Fri Nov 13 2026 - 05:18:33 EST


Hi Andrew,

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> https://www.sanechips.com.cn/en/Products/WiredEn/fixedNetworkTerminalEn/1558027080778723330.html
>
> This says it is RGMII.

Thanks for the links, that settles it. I will treat the link to the
ZX5201 as RGMII.

> So picking SERDES is probably causing some of this confusion. SERDES
> implies there is a PCS, and the PCS is doing signalling for SGMII or
> 1000BaseX. With RGMII, none of that exists. The registers might be
> controlling clocks, or regulators etc.

Makes sense. I will drop the SerDes name for those registers, work out
what they really control and where the RGMII delays are set, before
the networking patches go out again.

Best regards,
Navid