Subject: Re: [PATCH] [UPDATED] tsec: Allow Ten Bit Interface to be configurable

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:16:19 -0500

Andy Fleming wrote:
> It's actually a per-tsec property.  There's not one tbi, there's one  
> per TSEC.  The one on TSEC 0 is special in that it can interfere with  
> PHYs on the MDIO bus.
> 
> So I would suggest making it a property of the ethernet node:
> 
> ethernet@24000 {
> ...
> tbipa = <1f>;
> ...
> }

"tbipa" isn't likely to pass the Segher test. :-)

If the TBI address is in PHY-space, then it should go in the MDIO bus. 
For the second TSEC, create a second MDIO bus node.

-Scott