U-Boot PHY_MSCC vs PHY_VITESSE

[Peng Fan]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:43:36PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>As part of working on "allyesconfig" support I ran into the following
>problem. Both drivers/net/phy/mscc.c and drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
>implement support for the VSC8584 PHY. The vitesse.c driver is much
>older and only had VSC8584 support added for a specific Freescale
>Layerscape platform whereas mscc.c is modern and been updated with
>newer PHYs as well. And we need one driver to support this phy, not two.
>I am inclined to remove support from vitesse.c. However, only 4
>platforms use the PHY_MSCC driver and everyone else uses PHY_VITESSE.
>
>I'm cc'ing all of the board maintainers (other than PowerPC platforms)
>that use PHY_VITESEE today to see what their feedback is on which way to
>go here. I'm ignoring PowerPC because that can just stay on the
>PHY_VITESSE driver based on timing of changes in git log.

There are many Layerscape boards that we need to support are still using
PHY_VITESEE. I need to check internal to ask for resources to help on
the migration.  BTW, to support allyesconfig, is it feasible to
make the two configs exclusive, saying "depends on !X".

Thanks
Peng
>
>-- 
>Tom