On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> What is there? A phy chip, or something else?

It's "something else", there's a phy which aggregates 4xSGMIIs to
1xQSGMII, we are on the media side here, the MAC side is connected
to the switch through QSGMII.

> Perhaps some DT property should be added to explicitly
> enable the use of the inband status...

Yes, that would be fine.

> I'll try to come up with the patch tomorrow that adds such
> property.

Thanks! I can help for testing.

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Sébastien