Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 14/14] dt-bindings: net: ar803x: add qca8084 PHY properties

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:09:12 +0000

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 10:41:28PM +0800, Jie Luo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/16/2023 9:51 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:21:53AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > The following is the chip package, the chip can work on the switch mode
> > > > like the existed upstream code qca8k, where PHY1-PHY4 is connected with
> > > > MAC1-MAC4 directly;
> > > 
> > > Ah, that is new information, and has a big effect on the design.
> > 
> > This QCA8084 that's being proposed in these patches is not a PHY in
> > itself, but is a SoC. I came across this:
> > 
> >   https://www.rt-rk.com/android-tv-solution-tv-in-smartphone-pantsstb-based-on-qualcomm-soc-design/
> 
> The chip mentioned in the link you mentioned is SoC, which is not the
> chip that the qca8084 driver work for.

So there's two chips called QCA8084 both produced by Qualcomm? I find
that hard to believe.

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