linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] net: lantiq: Wait for the GPHY firmware to be ready

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Message-ID: <972ccc3f-2e66-16a2-fb58-875552645342@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:57:52 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        hauke@...ke-m.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com, olteanv@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: lantiq: Wait for the GPHY firmware to be ready



On 11/15/2020 8:57 AM, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> A user reports (slightly shortened from the original message):
>   libphy: lantiq,xrx200-mdio: probed
>   mdio_bus 1e108000.switch-mii: MDIO device at address 17 is missing.
>   gswip 1e108000.switch lan: no phy at 2
>   gswip 1e108000.switch lan: failed to connect to port 2: -19
>   lantiq,xrx200-net 1e10b308.eth eth0: error -19 setting up slave phy
> 
> This is a single-port board using the internal Fast Ethernet PHY. The
> user reports that switching to PHY scanning instead of configuring the
> PHY within device-tree works around this issue.
> 
> The documentation for the standalone variant of the PHY11G (which is
> probably very similar to what is used inside the xRX200 SoCs but having
> the firmware burnt onto that standalone chip in the factory) states that
> the PHY needs 300ms to be ready for MDIO communication after releasing
> the reset.
> 
> Add a 300ms delay after initializing all GPHYs to ensure that the GPHY
> firmware had enough time to initialize and to appear on the MDIO bus.
> Unfortunately there is no (known) documentation on what the minimum time
> to wait after releasing the reset on an internal PHY so play safe and
> take the one for the external variant. Only wait after the last GPHY
> firmware is loaded to not slow down the initialization too much (
> xRX200 has two GPHYs but newer SoCs have at least three GPHYs).
> 
> Fixes: 14fceff4771e51 ("net: dsa: Add Lantiq / Intel DSA driver for vrx200")
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian