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Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II

To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: PHY Abstraction Layer II
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:42:29 -0800
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:14:16 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'll have a closer look when I find some time, see if it makes sense to
> adapt sungem or not.

Especially because of the Broadcom PHYs I bet it doesn't.

Too many chips have to reset the MAC, or do other fancy stuff
when programming the PHY to make this genphy thing very useful.

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