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dt-bindings: add an explanation for internal phy-mode
When working on the Allwinner internal PHY, the first work was to use the "internal" mode, but some answer was made my mail on what are really internal mean for PHY. This patch write that in the doc. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt

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Specification).
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- phy-mode: string, operation mode of the PHY interface. This is now a de-facto
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standard property; supported values are:
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* "internal"
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* "internal" (Internal means there is not a standard bus between the MAC and
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the PHY, something proprietary is being used to embed the PHY in the MAC.)
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* "mii"
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* "gmii"
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* "sgmii"

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