Tolunay, Wolfgang:
See below:
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 19:32, Tolunay Orkun wrote:
Another thing to consider is incompatible GigE PHY register sets. So, perhaps we should have someting have CONFIG_PHY_1000_TYPE as well and use it like:
Incompatible!?! Then they do not follow the IEEE 802.3 standard. The only reason I felt comfortable putting the code in was I read the .3 standard wrt unsupported registers.
Well, technically Intel LXT971A is a 10/100 PHY. It does not support GigE but strangely it refers to 1000 mode in status and register 0x9 and 0xA but then again puts a note and says not implemented. It looks like either half implemented GigE design sold as 10/100 PHY.
For this particular case LXT971A is returning 0x1fff for register 0xA.
(I wonder what other phys don't return 0xFFFF, I only have 4 different types on hand ;)
I am afraid I cannot say that. Perhaps folks on the list try "mii read" command to test if register 0xA is returning other than 0xffff.
Regards, Tolunay