u-boot/doc/device-tree-bindings/net/fixed-link.txt
Hannes Schmelzer db40c1aa1c drivers/net/phy: add fixed-phy / fixed-link support
This patch adds support for having a "fixed-link" to some other MAC
(like some embedded switch-device).

For this purpose we introduce a new phy-driver, called "Fixed PHY".

Fixed PHY works only with CONFIG_DM_ETH enabled, since the fixed-link is
described with a subnode below ethernet interface.

Most ethernet drivers (unfortunately not all are following same scheme
for searching/attaching phys) are calling "phy_connect(...)" for getting
a phy-device.
At this point we link in, we search here for a subnode called "fixed-
link", once found we start phy_device_create(...) with the special phy-
id PHY_FIXED_ID (0xa5a55a5a).

During init the "Fixed PHY" driver has registered with this id and now
gets probed, during probe we get all the details about fixed-link out of
dts, later on the phy reports this values.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Schmelzer <hannes.schmelzer@br-automation.com>

Signed-off-by: Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm@oevsv.at>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
2017-03-26 09:58:26 -05:00

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Fixed link Device Tree binding
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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.
Examples:
ethernet@0 {
...
fixed-link {
speed = <1000>;
full-duplex;
};
...
};