Subject: Re: "eth1: Could not attach to PHY" on MPC8349e-MITX

From: Andre Schwarz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:56:40 +0100

Timur Tabi schrieb:
> Andre Schwarz wrote:
>   
>> Timur,
>>
>> is it possible that the PHY adress doesn't match the one specified in
>> the dts ?
>>     
>
> What part of the DTS contains the PHY address?  I have this:
>
> 	mdio@24520 {
> 		#address-cells = <1>;
> 		#size-cells = <0>;
> 		compatible = "fsl,gianfar-mdio";
> 		reg = <0x24520 0x20>;
>
> 		/* Vitesse 8201 */
> 		phy1c: ethernet-phy@1c {
> 			interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
> 			interrupts = <18 0x8>;
> 			reg = <0x1c>;
> 			device_type = "ethernet-phy";
> 		};
> 	};
>
> 	enet1: ethernet@25000 {
> 		cell-index = <1>;
> 		device_type = "network";
> 		model = "TSEC";
> 		compatible = "gianfar";
> 		reg = <0x25000 0x1000>;
> 		local-mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ];
> 		interrupts = <35 0x8 36 0x8 37 0x8>;
> 		phy-connection-type = "mii";
> 		interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
>   
Your PHY is not on the MDIO bus, i.e. can not be programmed or queried.
Maybe your kernel lacks the mdio-less configuration ?
> 		/* Vitesse 7385 isn't on the MDIO bus */
> 		fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
> 		linux,network-index = <1>;
> 	};
>
>   

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