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Date:   Tue, 9 Jan 2018 16:17:35 +0100
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, kishon@...com, andrew@...n.ch,
        gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com, mw@...ihalf.com,
        stefanc@...vell.com, ymarkman@...vell.com,
        thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com,
        miquel.raynal@...e-electrons.com, nadavh@...vell.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] net: mvpp2: 2500baseX support

Hi Russell,

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:44:48PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > This patch adds the 2500Base-X PHY mode support in the Marvell PPv2
> > driver. 2500Base-X is quite close to 1000Base-X and SGMII modes and uses
> > nearly the same code path.
> 
> Sorry, also...

Comments always welcomed :)

> > @@ -4668,6 +4692,10 @@ static void mvpp2_port_mii_gmac_configure_mode(struct mvpp2_port *port)
> >  		 */
> >  		val |= MVPP2_GMAC_CONFIG_GMII_SPEED |
> >  		       MVPP2_GMAC_CONFIG_FULL_DUPLEX;
> > +	else if (port->phy_interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_2500BASEX)
> > +		val |= MVPP2_GMAC_CONFIG_GMII_SPEED |
> > +		       MVPP2_GMAC_CONFIG_MII_SPEED |
> > +		       MVPP2_GMAC_CONFIG_FULL_DUPLEX;
> 
> I think you'll find you don't need to set MII_SPEED here, since
> MII_SPEED selects between 10 and 100, GMII_SPEED always takes
> precidence selecting 1000, and 2500 is done by the comphy
> increasing the clocks by 2.5x.

I just had a look at the datasheet, and as you say it seems GMII_SPEED
takes over MII_SPEED. I'll see if there is a corner case here or if
selecting MII_SPEED doesn't make sense, and update accordingly.

Thanks!
Antoine

-- 
Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com