linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] net: stmmac: sun8i: force select external PHY when no internal one

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 12:27:24 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     megous@...ous.com, linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] net: stmmac: sun8i: force select external PHY when
 no internal one

Hello!

On 21.05.2019 2:50, megous@...ous.com wrote:

> From: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>
> 
> The PHY selection bit also exists on SoCs without an internal PHY; if it's
> set to 1 (internal PHY, default value) then the MAC will not make use of
> any PHY such SoCs.
          ^ "on" or "with" missing?

> This problem appears when adapting for H6, which has no real internal PHY
> (the "internal PHY" on H6 is not on-die, but on a co-packaged AC200 chip,
> connected via RMII interface at GPIO bank A).
> 
> Force the PHY selection bit to 0 when the SOC doesn't have an internal PHY,
> to address the problem of a wrong default value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Jirman <megous@...ous.com>
[...]

MBR, Sergei