Re: Failed to reinit phy of spacemit-dwmac when reset-gpio is present

Inochi Amaoto <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:30:19 +0800

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On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 03:49:43PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3-pico-itx.dts
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3-pico-itx.dts
> > > @@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ &eth0 {
> > > 
> > >  	mdio {
> > >  		phy0: phy@1 {
> > > -			compatible = "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22";
> > > +			compatible = "ethernet-phy-id001c.c916",
> > > +				     "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22";
> > 
> > Indeed that's merely a workaround :(
> 
> Despite is being a workaround, there has not been much progress on a
> generic framework for dealing with clocks, resets, regulators etc,
> before probing PHYs. So this is probably what you want to do.
> 
>        Andrew

OK, I think I should accept the fact and let this workaround
solve the problem.

Regards,
Inochi