Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:10:05 -0400 | Subject | Re: Porting the ibm_newemac driver to use phylib (and other PHY/MAC questions) | From | Kyle Moffett <> |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently fiddling with a custom embedded prototype board using >> the ibm_newemac driver with some currently-unsupported PHYs. Those >> PHYs *are* supported by phylib, but the emac driver seems to have its >> own PHY layer cribbed from the sungem driver. I'm curious if there's >> some particular reason it hasn't been ported (aside from "nobody has >> bothered yet"). > > IIRC, Ben had some issues with how phylib and the EMAC would need to > interact. Not sure if he has those written down somewhere or not. > (CC'd).
Hmm, yeah, I'd be interested to see those. There's enough similar between phylib and the EMAC and sungem drivers that I'm considering a series of somewhat-mechanical patches to make EMAC and sungem use the "struct phy_device" and "struct mii_bus" from phylib, possibly abstracting out some helper functions along the way.
>> Also, if I end up >> going that route, are there others available with other hardware >> variants who would be willing to test my patches on their boards? > > I have a large variety of boards that I can test with since the entire > 4xx line relies on this driver for on-board network.
Wonderful! If/when I hack together a patch series I'll make sure to put you on the CC list. Thanks!
Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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