[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: support BCM54616 PHY

Brown, Aaron F aaron.f.brown at intel.com
Thu Jul 27 00:40:01 UTC 2017


> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On Behalf
> Of John W. Linville
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:12 AM
> To: netdev at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org; John W. Linville
> <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: support BCM54616 PHY
> 
> The management port on an Edgecore AS7712-32 switch uses an igb MAC,
> but
> it uses a BCM54616 PHY. Without a patch like this, loading the igb
> module produces dmesg output like this:
> 
> [    3.439125] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.
> [    3.439866] igb: probe of 0000:00:14.0 failed with error -2
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_82575.c   | 6 ++++++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_defines.h | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_hw.h      | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

I do not have the specific hardware (Edgecore switch) but as far as regression tests go this works fine.
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>


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