Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-sabresd: change phy-mode to use rgmii-id

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Thu Mar 21 2019 - 21:12:30 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:17:01AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Abel,
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:42 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > It seems we have other boards that need to be fixed and we can not
> > > have an old dtb with functional Ethernet with a new kernel.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if this issue is AR8031 specific?
> >
> > I can confirm the same fix is works on imx6sx too.
>
> imx6sx-sabresd also uses an AR8031 Ethernet PHY.
>
> I also tested that changing the phy-mode to "rgmii-id" fixes Ethernet
> on pico-imx7d with AR8035.
>
> So yes, we currently have lots of broken dtb's in mainline and I am
> wondering what is the proper fix here.

So can we have a single patch fixing all broken i.MX DTBs?

Shawn