Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/14] yt6801: Add Motorcomm yt6801 PCIe driver

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On 2025/4/8 18:30, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:28:21PM +0800, Frank Sae wrote:
>> This series includes adding Motorcomm YT6801 Gigabit ethernet driver
>>  and adding yt6801 ethernet driver entry in MAINTAINERS file.
>> YT6801 integrates a YT8531S phy.
> 
> What is different between this and the Designware GMAC4 core supported
> by drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/ ?
> 

We support more features: NS, RSS, wpi, wol pattern and aspm control.

> Looking at the register layout, it looks very similar. The layout of the
> MAC control register looks similar. The RX queue and PMT registers are
> at the same relative offset. The MDIO registers as well.
> 
> Can you re-use the stmmac driver?
> 

I can not re-use the stmmac driver, because pcie and ephy can not work well on
the stmmac driver.




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