Subject: Re: 3c905C PHY?
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: current-users
Date: 09/22/2000 21:50:01
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:44:53PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> > FWIW, the OpenBSD exphy(4) matches this device.
> 
> Matching it is trivial, but it makes no sense to do that unless the
> PHY needs special treatment. For the internal exphy this is case case,
> but giving another PHY the same driver just because it happens to
> be attached to the same ethernet chipset is just plain wrong..

My assumption or guess when I saw it was that the original (id 0)
internal PHY might in fact have Broadcom macros in disguise and
so register compatible, but I don't actually have any knowledge
about this.


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Soren