Suggestion to add option to switch off Ethernet LEDs

[moritzvb]

Hi,

there is a tool to switch off the Ethernet LEDs on the PHY in the Red Pitaya official system (https://github.com/RedPitaya/RedPitaya/tree/master/tools/phytool). Unfortunately, it is a binary file only. They are blinking and this can couple into the signal path (e.g. DAC).

In order to support this feature, could you maybe add the mdio-tool to the alpine distribution ? I got it working by compiling https://github.com/PieVo/mdio-tool for alpine linux.

The commands are:

mdio-tool w eth0 0x1b 0x0000 --> PHY LEDs disabled
mdio-tool w eth0 0x1b 0x0f00 --> PHY LEDs enabled

Thanks,

Moritz

[pavel-demin]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I added mii.c with this commit.

Here is an example of how it can be used to disable PHY LEDs:

~/apps/common_tools/mii eth0 0x1b 0x0000

[pavel-demin]

The mii program is now in the new release.