[PATCH] net: phy: mscc: Enable RMII clock output for VSC8541 PHY
Pranav Tilak
pranav.vinaytilak at amd.com
Thu Jan 29 09:10:54 CET 2026
Set RMII reference clock output to enabled (1) by default for VSC8541
PHY in RMII mode. The RMII specification requires a 50MHz reference
clock, and many board designs expect the PHY to provide this clock to
the MAC controller.
Previously, the driver defaulted rmii_clk_out to 0 (disabled) for all
interface modes, which caused the PHY to not output the required 50MHz
clock. This resulted in MAC-PHY communication failures and prevented
network operations like DHCP from working on RMII-configured boards.
This change alligns with the hardware power-up default behavior and
aligns with both the generic PHY driver and Linux MSCC PHY driver
implementations.
Signed-off-by: Pranav Tilak <pranav.vinaytilak at amd.com>
---
drivers/net/phy/mscc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c b/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c
index bd9cd952975..e93996e277c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mscc.c
@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ static int vsc8541_config(struct phy_device *phydev)
return -EINVAL;
}
/* Default RMII Clk Output to 0=OFF/1=ON */
- rmii_clk_out = 0;
+ rmii_clk_out = 1;
retval = vsc8531_vsc8541_clk_skew_config(phydev);
if (retval != 0)
--
2.34.1
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