[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] drivers: net: add marvell MDIO driver

[Joe Hershberger]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM Alex Marginean
<alexandru.marginean at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> This patch adds a separate driver for the MDIO interface of the
> Marvell Ethernet controllers based on driver model. There are two
> reasons to have a separate driver rather than including it inside
> the MAC driver itself:
>   *) The MDIO interface is shared by all Ethernet ports, so a driver
>      must guarantee non-concurrent accesses to this MDIO interface. The
>      most logical way is to have a separate driver that handles this
>      single MDIO interface, used by all Ethernet ports.
>   *) The MDIO interface is the same between the existing mv643xx_eth
>      driver and the new mvneta/mvpp2 driver. Even though it is for now
>      only used by the mvneta/mvpp2 driver, it will in the future be
>      used by the mv643xx_eth driver as well.
>
> This driver supports SMI IEEE for 802.3 Clause 22 and XSMI for IEEE
> 802.3 Clause 45.
>
> This patch also adds device tree binding for marvell MDIO driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ken Ma <make at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Marginean <alexm.osslist at gmail.com>

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