Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: dts: aspeed: Add Facebook Cloudripper (AST2600) BMC

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:40:17PM -0700, Tao Ren wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:29:17AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 22:28, <rentao.bupt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > +&mdio1 {
> > > +       status = "okay";
> > 
> > You're enabling this but it looks like it's unused?
> 
> Thanks Joel for the careful review. The MDIO controller is not paired
> with BMC MAC; instead, it's connected to the MDC/MDIO interface of the
> on-board switch (whose ports are connected to BMC, Host and front panel
> management port).

What switch is it? Is there a DSA driver for it? drivers/net/dsa/*
Ideally you want Linux to be controlling the switch, in the standard
linux way.

     Andrew