On 11/15/2016 02:34 PM, Lino Sanfilippo wrote: > On 15.11.2016 22:59, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> The link state is retrieved by a command to the application processor that >>> is running >>> on the network card. Also the register to set the phy configuration is >>> write-only, so >>> it is not even possible to do the usual mdio bit-banging in the Phy read() >>> and write() >>> functions (however there seems to be another application processor command >>> reserved >>> for retrieving the PHY settings, but I have not tried it yet). >> >>>> + val = MII_BMCR << 16 | SLIC_PCR_AUTONEG | >>>> + SLIC_PCR_AUTONEG_RST; >>>> + slic_write(sdev, SLIC_REG_WPHY, val); >> >> This actually looks a lot like an MDIO write operation. The upper 16 >> bits are the register, and the lower 16 bits are the data. What you >> don't have is the address. But maybe it is limited to one address. >> >> If the processor command reserved for read works in a similar way, you >> have enough to do an MDIO bus. >> > > Ok, I will give it a try. Reading values via the application processor > is a bit awkward though, since it requires an address to a dma area as part of > the command and then the AP informs the driver via irq that the dma memory > has > been written. So probably the irq handler will have to set some flag and > the mdio_read() function will have to poll for that flag in place of doing > bit-banging a register.
That's a bit unusual compared to typical controllers that are usually memory-mapped and that you can either write to, read/poll to know about completion. I suppose that you could still have a mdiobus implementation that is able to read to/from PHYs by submitting a command to the AP, wait on a completion structure, and have the interrupt handler do the completion of the command? -- Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
