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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:03:00 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
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Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: imx: allow to disable board specific PHY fixups
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:44:59AM +0200, David Jander wrote:
> I have checked with the datasheet of the AR8035, and AFAICS, what the code
> does is this:
>
> - Disable the SmartEEE feature of the phy. The comment in the code implies
> that for some reason it doesn't work, but the reason itself is not given.
> Anyway, disabling SmartEEE should IMHO opinion be controlled by a DT
> setting. There is no reason to believe this problem is specific to the
> i.MX6. Besides, it is a feature of the phy, so it seems logical to expose
> that via the DT. Once that is done, it has no place here.
>
> - Set the external clock output to 125MHz. This is needed because the i.MX6
> needs a 125MHz reference clock input. But it is not a requirement to use
> this output. It is perfectly fine and possible to design a board that uses
> an external oscillator for this. It is also possible that an i.MX6 design
> has such a phy connected to a MAC behind a switch or some other interface.
> Independent of i.MX6 this setting can also be necessary for other hardware
> designs, based on different SoC's. In summary, this is a feature of the
> specific hardware design at hand, and has nothing to do with the i.MX6
> specifically. This should definitely be exposed through the DT and not be
> here.
>
> - Enable TXC delay. To clarify, the RGMII specification version 1 specified
> that the RXC and TXC traces should be routed long enough to introduce a
> certain delay to the clock signal, or the delay should be introduced via
> other means. In a later version of the spec, a provision was given for MAC
> or PHY devices to generate this delay internally. The i.MX6 MAC interface
> is unable to generate the required delay internally, so it has to be taken
> care of either by the board layout, or by the PHY device. This is the
> crucial point: The amount of delay set by the PHY delay register depends on
> the board layout. It should NEVER be hard-coded in SoC setup code. The
> correct way is to specify it in the DT. Needless to say that this too,
> isn't i.MX6-specific.
Let's say this is simple to do, shall we?
So, if I disable the call to ar8031_phy_fixup() from ar8035_phy_fixup(),
and add the following to the imx6qdl-sr-som.dtsi fragment:
&fec {
...
phy-handle = <&phy>;
mdio {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
phy: ethernet-phy@0 {
reg = <0>;
qca,clk-out-frequency = <125000000>;
};
};
};
Note that phy-mode is already RGMII-ID. This should work, right?
The link still comes up, which is good, but the PHY registers for
the clock output are wrong.
MMD 3 register 0x8016 contains 0xb282, not 0xb29a which it has
_with_ the quirk - and thus the above clock frequency stated in
DT is not being selected. Forcing this register to the right
value restores networking.
Yes, the PHY driver is being used:
Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: attached PHY driver [Qualcomm Atheros AR8035] (mii_bus:phy_addr=2188000.ethernet-1:00, irq=POLL)
So that's not the problem.
Adding some debug shows that the phy_device that is being used is
the correct one:
Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: node=/soc/aips-bus@...0000/ethernet@...8000/mdio/ethernet-phy@0
and it is correctly parsing the clk-out-frequency property:
Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: cof=0 125000000
When we get to attaching the PHY however:
Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: clk_25m_mask=0004 clk_25m_reg=0000
which is just wrong. That's because:
if (at803x_match_phy_id(phydev, ATH8030_PHY_ID) ||
at803x_match_phy_id(phydev, ATH8035_PHY_ID)) {
priv->clk_25m_reg &= ~AT8035_CLK_OUT_MASK;
priv->clk_25m_mask &= ~AT8035_CLK_OUT_MASK;
}
is patently untested - those "~" should not be there. These masks
are one-bits-set for the values that comprise the fields, not
zero-bits-set.
So, I see a patch series is going to be necessary to fix the cockup(s)
in the PHY driver before we can do anything with DT files.
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