[U-Boot] [PATCH] mx28evk: Convert to phylib framework
Alexandre Pereira da Silva
aletes.xgr at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 07:00:04 CEST 2013
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Fabio Estevam,
>
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>> > Dear Fabio Estevam,
>> >
>> >> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
>> >>
>> >> mx28evk has a LAN8270 ethernet phy and we can use the phylib framework.
>> >>
>> >> One of the advantages of converting to phylib is that we no longer see a
>> >> timeout prior to the first transfer in the 'tftp' command.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> After applying this patch I get:
>> >>
>> >> U-Boot 2013.04-11810-gd6d75ec-dirty (Jul 12 2013 - 01:15:03)
>> >>
>> >> CPU: Freescale i.MX28 rev1.2 at 454 MHz
>> >> BOOT: SSP SD/MMC #0, 3V3
>> >> DRAM: 128 MiB
>> >> MMC: MXS MMC: 0
>> >> Video: MXSFB: 'videomode' variable not set!
>> >> In: serial
>> >> Out: serial
>> >> Err: serial
>> >> Net: Phy not found
>> >>
>> >> I still get this 'Phy not found' message, but I think this is not
>> >> related to the board code.
>> >
>> > This is because PHYlib doesn't know your PHY. You might need to add a
>> > definition for it into drivers/net/phy/smsc.c
>>
>> mx28evk uses a LAN8270.
>>
>> drivers/net/phy/smsc.c has an entry for "SMSC LAN8710/LAN8720", so not
>> sure why it fails to recognize it.
>> I haven't debugged it yet.
>>
>> Which phy does sc_sps_1.h use? Is it also a 8720? Is the phy recognized on
>> boot?
>
> I think it's 8720 , but it's recognised , yes. Are you sure the PHY addresses
> are correct ? You can dig into phylib a bit and see what IDs does it report.
I think Fabio needs to define CONFIG_PHY_SMSC and use PHY address 3.
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