[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: phy: micrel: add support for KSZ886x switches in MIIM mode

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 00:13:38 CEST 2016


On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Alexey Firago <alexey_firago at mentor.com> wrote:
> This patch adds a phy driver for the Micrel KSZ886x switches.
>
> Similarly to the KSZ8895, SoC MAC is directly connected to the switch
> MAC on the switch CPU port, so the link to the switch is always up.
>
> KSZ886x switches can be used in the following configuration modes:
> - Unmanaged mode with config stored in external EEPROM
> - Managed mode over SPI
> - Managed mode over I2C
> - Managed mode over mdio/mdc (aka MIIM or SMI)
>
> This patch supports only unmanaged and MIIM modes.
>
> Based on Micrel KSZ886x driver from Linux kernel and
> Micrel KSZ8895 driver from U-Boot.
>
> Verified with the KSZ8863MLL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Firago <alexey_firago at mentor.com>

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>


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