[U-Boot-Users] [GIT PULL] Add support for the mpc832xemds board

[Ben Warren]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 18:13 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timur Tabi [mailto:timur at freescale.com] 
> > Sent: 15 December 2006 17:59
> > To: Joakim Tjernlund
> > Cc: 'Kim Phillips'; u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [GIT PULL] Add support for the 
> > mpc832xemds board
> > 
> > Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > 
> > > 3) Since I don't have a real PHY(MII to MII) I get these 
> > >    annoying printouts (read wrong value ...). Can't you loose
> > >    them somehow? Some sort of pretend PHY that always returns OK?
> > 
> > Wasn't there a "generic PHY" patch posted some time ago that 
> > might fix this?
> 
> That would be great, but I havn't seen/can't find one.
> 
>  Jocke

I'm pretty sure the generic phy was to allow the use of generic real
PHYs instead of having to add a new entry for each one.  Since the PHY
page/register layout is IEEE-specified, this *should* work for any old
10/100 PHY out there.  I think what Joakim is asking for (and I'm in the
same boat) is to have a 'fake' PHY so when we connect the TSEC to a
switch that doesn't implement MDIO, a happy response is returned during
driver initialization.  Correct me if I'm wrong here...

regards,
Ben