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authorAndy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>2008-12-16 15:29:15 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-12-16 15:29:15 -0800
commitb31a1d8b41513b96e9c7ec2f68c5734cef0b26a4 (patch)
treef8643c2fd1b137dd6c00bcd385ad36adfca4f540 /Documentation
parent257d938a0c17838c740eb68f0005b041444ac2c2 (diff)
gianfar: Convert gianfar to an of_platform_driver
Does the same for the accompanying MDIO driver, and then modifies the TBI configuration method. The old way used fields in einfo, which no longer exists. The new way is to create an MDIO device-tree node for each instance of gianfar, and create a tbi-handle property to associate ethernet controllers with the TBI PHYs they are connected to. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/tsec.txt12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/tsec.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/tsec.txt
index cf55fa4112d..7fa4b27574b 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/tsec.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/tsec.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
The MDIO is a bus to which the PHY devices are connected. For each
device that exists on this bus, a child node should be created. See
-the definition of the PHY node below for an example of how to define
-a PHY.
+the definition of the PHY node in booting-without-of.txt for an example
+of how to define a PHY.
Required properties:
- reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ Example:
};
};
+* TBI Internal MDIO bus
+
+As of this writing, every tsec is associated with an internal TBI PHY.
+This PHY is accessed through the local MDIO bus. These buses are defined
+similarly to the mdio buses, except they are compatible with "fsl,gianfar-tbi".
+The TBI PHYs underneath them are similar to normal PHYs, but the reg property
+is considered instructive, rather than descriptive. The reg property should
+be chosen so it doesn't interfere with other PHYs on the bus.
* Gianfar-compatible ethernet nodes