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author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2014-05-16 16:14:05 +0200 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-16 17:19:22 -0400 |
commit | 3be2a49e5c08d268f8af0dd4fe89a24ea8cdc339 (patch) | |
tree | 83d32019dd08257b68821bafa59bbcd4e089ce76 /Documentation | |
parent | a75951217472c522c324adb0a4de3ba69d656ef5 (diff) | |
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of: provide a binding for fixed link PHYs
Some Ethernet MACs have a "fixed link", and are not connected to a
normal MDIO-managed PHY device. For those situations, a Device Tree
binding allows to describe a "fixed link" using a special PHY node.
This patch adds:
* A documentation for the fixed PHY Device Tree binding.
* An of_phy_is_fixed_link() function that an Ethernet driver can call
on its PHY phandle to find out whether it's a fixed link PHY or
not. It should typically be used to know if
of_phy_register_fixed_link() should be called.
* An of_phy_register_fixed_link() function that instantiates the
fixed PHY into the PHY subsystem, so that when the driver calls
of_phy_connect(), the PHY device associated to the OF node will be
found.
These two additional functions also support the old fixed-link Device
Tree binding used on PowerPC platforms, so that ultimately, the
network device drivers for those platforms could be converted to use
of_phy_is_fixed_link() and of_phy_register_fixed_link() instead of
of_phy_connect_fixed_link(), while keeping compatibility with their
respective Device Tree bindings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
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1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fixed-link.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fixed-link.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e956de1be935 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fixed-link.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Fixed link Device Tree binding +------------------------------ + +Some Ethernet MACs have a "fixed link", and are not connected to a +normal MDIO-managed PHY device. For those situations, a Device Tree +binding allows to describe a "fixed link". + +Such a fixed link situation is described by creating a 'fixed-link' +sub-node of the Ethernet MAC device node, with the following +properties: + +* 'speed' (integer, mandatory), to indicate the link speed. Accepted + values are 10, 100 and 1000 +* 'full-duplex' (boolean, optional), to indicate that full duplex is + used. When absent, half duplex is assumed. +* 'pause' (boolean, optional), to indicate that pause should be + enabled. +* 'asym-pause' (boolean, optional), to indicate that asym_pause should + be enabled. + +Example: + +ethernet@0 { + ... + fixed-link { + speed = <1000>; + full-duplex; + }; + ... +}; |