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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] net: phy: microchip_t1s: add support for Microchip LAN865x Rev.B0 PHYs
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Hi Andrew,

On 23/05/23 5:59 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>>> Is this doing a read from fuses? Is anything documented about this?
>>> What the values mean? Would a board designer ever need to use
>>> different values? Or is this just a case of 'trust us', you don't need
>>> to understand this magic.
>> Yes, it is a read from fuses and those values are specific/unique for
>> each PHY chip. Those values are calculated based on some characteristics
>> of the PHY chip behavior for optimal performance and they are fused in
>> the PHY chip for the driver to configure it during the initialization.
>> This is done in the production/testing stage of the PHY chip. As it is
>> specific to PHY chip, a board designer doesn't have any influence on
>> this and need not to worry about it. Unfortunately they can't be
>> documented anywhere as they are design specific. So simply 'trust us'.
>
> O.K. Please consider for future generations that you move all this
> magic into the PHY firmware. There does not seem to be any reason the
> OS needs to know about this.
Thanks for the feedback.

Best Regards,
Parthiban V
>
> Andrew

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