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From: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mripard@kernel.org, wens@csie.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	hkallweit1@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Pine64+ specific hacks for RTL8211E Ethernet PHY
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:08:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2CCD0856-433E-4602-A079-9F7F5F2E00D6@aosc.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191001.090651.796983023328992596.davem@davemloft.net>



于 2019年10月2日 GMT+08:00 上午12:06:51, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 写到:
>From: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
>Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2019 16:29:09 +0800
>
>> There're some Pine64+ boards known to have broken RTL8211E chips, and
>> a hack is given by Pine64+, which is said to be from Realtek.
>> 
>> This patchset adds the hack.
>> 
>> The hack is taken from U-Boot, and it contains magic numbers without
>> any document.
>
>Please contact Realtek and try to get an explanation about this.

Sorry, but Realtek never shows any idea to add more infomation about this.

These hacks had existed and worked for years.

>
>I understand that eventually we may not get a proper explanation
>but I really want you to put forth real effort to nail down whats
>going on here before I even consider these patches seriously.
>
>Thank you.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-01  8:29 [PATCH 0/3] Pine64+ specific hacks for RTL8211E Ethernet PHY Icenowy Zheng
2019-10-01  8:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: add binding " Icenowy Zheng
2019-10-01  8:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: phy: realtek: add config hack for broken RTL8211E on Pine64+ boards Icenowy Zheng
2019-10-01  8:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: allwinner: a64: dts: apply hack for RTL8211E on Pine64+ Icenowy Zheng
2019-10-01 16:06 ` [PATCH 0/3] Pine64+ specific hacks for RTL8211E Ethernet PHY David Miller
2019-10-01 16:08   ` Icenowy Zheng [this message]
2019-10-01 16:30     ` David Miller
2019-10-01 16:31       ` Icenowy Zheng
2019-10-01 16:41         ` David Miller
2019-10-01 16:47 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-10-01 16:52   ` Andrew Lunn

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