Re: [PATCH 00/21] net: phy: add X-Powers AC200/AC300 EPHY support

On Sun, Aug 02, 2026 at 11:14:10PM -0600, James Hilliard wrote:
> The Allwinner H616/H618 secondary EMAC is commonly connected to a Fast
> Ethernet PHY in an X-Powers AC200 or AC300 companion package.  The two
> packages expose the same link PHY ID and largely compatible link-side
> registers, but require different control paths before those registers can
> be accessed: AC200 is initialized through its I2C MFD, while AC300 uses a
> non-PHY Clause 22 control endpoint.
> 
> Some H616-family products were shipped with either package under the same
> board identity.  For those systems, this series uses a SID NVMEM field to
> select the control provider at run time.  With CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC, the link
> PHY enables only the selected fail-needs-probe provider, so an AC300 board
> does not probe the unused AC200 I2C controller or claim its pins.  The same
> drivers also support fixed descriptions without CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC: a board
> can reference one enabled provider, or enable both candidates when runtime
> selection is still required.
> 
> The series adds:
> 
>   - the H616 EMAC1 binding, stmmac variant and controller node;
>   - generic MDIO OF reconfiguration support for PHYs, packages, scanned
>     addresses and generic MDIO devices;
>   - the AC200 MFD and AC200/AC300 EPHY control providers;
>   - the shared AC200/AC300 link-PHY driver, including calibration, power and
>     reset sequencing, MDI/MDI-X, statistics, EDPD, PHY-managed EEE, package
>     LEDs, interrupts and Wake-on-LAN; and
>   - H6 and H616-family device-tree descriptions and arm64 defconfig support.
> 
> The AC200 and AC300 control and link paths were exercised on H616-family
> hardware during development, including link traffic, address handling,
> ethtool EDPD/EEE controls, statistics and LEDs.  The H6 interrupt and
> Wake-on-LAN description still needs validation by an H6 hardware user.
> 
> This series depends on Richard Genoud's v7 H616 PWM controller series,
> which provides the bypass clock used by the companion EPHY:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> 
> The PWM patches are an external prerequisite and are intentionally not
> included in this 21-patch series.

21 patches is on the big side. Now you have shown the big picture, can
you break this up into a couple of series?

    Andrew