On 4/20/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FYI, I've done a conversion of eri to GLDv3, as well as dmfe. In order
to record some experiences that I don't want to get lost, I posted them
on my blog at
http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2007/04/ive-just-finished-still-testing-my-port.html
Please have a look....
MII/GMII is a trickly one. You *could* try to write drivers for common
non-integrated PHYs abstracted above an MDIO interface provided by the
mac driver but, in my experience, there's usally some quirk of the way
that each piece of h/w is implemented that means you can't access the
PHY in such a clean way.
The trend at the time Nemo was implemented was towards integrated PHYs
(such that most information was available without direct s/w access
via MDIO). This trend is likely to continue IMHO, plus the MII world
gets a lot more complicated with XGMII and clause 45 MDIO.
Paul
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Paul Durrant
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant
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