linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: mediatek: sgmii: fix powering up the SGMII phy

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Message-ID: <6f147fbd31980c6155ea6e7deba26d8210ed6afd.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:10:38 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Couzens <lynxis@...0.eu>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: mediatek: sgmii: fix powering up the SGMII phy

Hello,

On Sun, 2022-08-21 at 00:45 +0200, Alexander Couzens wrote:
> There are cases when the SGMII_PHYA_PWD register contains 0x9 which
> prevents SGMII from working. The SGMII still shows link but no traffic
> can flow. Writing 0x0 to the PHYA_PWD register fix the issue. 0x0 was
> taken from a good working state of the SGMII interface.

do you have access to register documentation? what does 0x9 actually
mean? is the '0' value based on just empirical evaluation?

Thanks!

Paolo