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Altera_Forum
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13 years agoalexdb, please post your questions only once, and don't hijack other people's threads when your problem has nothing to do with the original one. You make the whole forum hard to read.
fbc99, I don't use Linux but the mdio part is necessary for the driver to know what speed has been negotiated on the Ethernet link, so that the MAC is configured correctly. There could be some options in menuconfig to enable/disable the MDIO code. If you search for the sentence "mdio bus registered" in the driver source code you may find some information on what needs to be done.