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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2012-11-12 17:03:47 +0100
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2012-11-16 10:20:52 +0100
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net: mvmdio: new Marvell MDIO driver
This patch adds a separate driver for the MDIO interface of the Marvell Ethernet controllers. 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 driver. Even though it is for now only used by the mvneta driver, it will in the future be used by the mv643xx_eth driver as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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+* Marvell MDIO Ethernet Controller interface
+
+The Ethernet controllers of the Marvel Kirkwood, Dove, Orion5x,
+MV78xx0, Armada 370 and Armada XP have an identical unit that provides
+an interface with the MDIO bus. This driver handles this MDIO
+interface.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: "marvell,orion-mdio"
+- reg: address and length of the SMI register
+
+The child nodes of the MDIO driver are the individual PHY devices
+connected to this MDIO bus. They must have a "reg" property given the
+PHY address on the MDIO bus.
+
+Example at the SoC level:
+
+mdio {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ compatible = "marvell,orion-mdio";
+ reg = <0xd0072004 0x4>;
+};
+
+And at the board level:
+
+mdio {
+ phy0: ethernet-phy@0 {
+ reg = <0>;
+ };
+
+ phy1: ethernet-phy@1 {
+ reg = <1>;
+ };
+}