On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Peng Fan <peng....@nxp.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jagan Teki [mailto:jagannadh.t...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 2018年3月21日 17:31
>> To: Peng Fan <peng....@nxp.com>
>> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com>; Fabio Estevam
>> <fabio.este...@nxp.com>; U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 4/5] net: fec: sharing MDIO for two enet
>> controllers
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Peng Fan <peng....@nxp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Jagan Teki [mailto:jagannadh.t...@gmail.com]
>> >> Sent: 2018年3月21日 17:19
>> >> To: Peng Fan <peng....@nxp.com>
>> >> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com>; Fabio Estevam
>> >> <fabio.este...@nxp.com>; U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
>> >> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 4/5] net: fec: sharing MDIO for two
>> >> enet controllers
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Peng Fan <peng....@nxp.com> wrote:
>> >> > On i.MX6SX, 6UL and 7D, there are two enet controllers each has a
>> >> > MDIO port. But Some boards share one MDIO port for the two enets.
>> >> > So introduce a configuration CONFIG_FEC_MXC_MDIO_BASE to indicate
>> >> > the MDIO port for sharing.
>> >> >
>> >> > To i.MX28, adapt to use the new config
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng....@nxp.com>
>> >> > Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com>
>> >> > Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.este...@nxp.com>
>> >> > ---
>> >> >
>> >> > V2:
>> >> >  adapt mx28 to use FEC_MXC_MDIO_BASE
>> >> >
>> >> >  drivers/net/Kconfig       | 9 ++++++++-
>> >> >  drivers/net/fec_mxc.c     | 8 ++++++--
>> >> >  include/configs/mx28evk.h | 1 +
>> >> >  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> >> >
>> >> > diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index
>> >> > de1947ccc1..c5fd6f648a 100644
>> >> > --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> >> > +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> >> > @@ -147,9 +147,16 @@ config ETHOC
>> >> >         help
>> >> >           This MAC is present in OpenRISC and Xtensa XTFPGA boards.
>> >> >
>> >> > +config FEC_MXC_MDIO_BASE
>> >> > +       hex "MDIO base address for the FEC controller"
>> >> > +       depends on FEC_MXC
>> >> > +       help
>> >> > +         This specifies the MDIO registers base address. It is used 
>> >> > when
>> >> > +         two FEC controllers share MDIO bus.
>> >>
>> >> How about retrieving this from dt? we have board that support dt
>> >> along with dm supporting.
>> >
>> > It's ok to retrieve the info from dt, but we are not only support dt,
>> > we also need to support non-dt case. Define FEC_MXC_MDIO_BASE is the
>> > simplest method to achieve that I think.
>>
>> But patch adds the same for DM case which usually retrieve the info from dt,
>> point here is to get rid of ifdef and new CONFIG_ ie where DM and dts play
>> smart atleast.
>
> The uboot fec_mxc driver or net driver is not that sync with linux code,
> Using dt here, need to parse phy-handle = <&ethphy0>;, then parse ethphy0 
> parent
> to get reg, I just think this like hack.

No, I think we can do this with adding new DM MDIO similar to DM PHY
which recently done. May be some sort of efforts but it is permanent.
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