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14 years ago

Ethernet link speed auto detection

Hi I have a custom board with a ethernet PHY connected to the FPGA using RGMII. I am using triple speed ethernet and iniche. I do not have the signals set_10 and set_1000 from the PHY. I can...
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14 years ago

Are you using a different PHY's than the ones officially supported by the TSE?

If you added a custom PHY to the driver, you need to provide a function that reads the link speed from the MDIO registers and configure the TSE accordingly. Have a look at the Marvel 88E111 driver for an example.