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Message-ID: <5823fe1b-c994-4ad5-945c-f82500a0843b@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:02:25 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@...aro.org>,
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: netsec: Ignore 'phy-mode' on SynQuacer in DT mode
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 11:48:32AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> As documented in acd7aaf51b20 ("netsec: ignore 'phy-mode' device
> property on ACPI systems") the SocioNext SynQuacer platform ships with
> firmware defining the PHY mode as RGMII even though the physical
> configuration of the PHY is for TX and RX delays. Since bbc4d71d63549bc
> ("net: phy: realtek: fix rtl8211e rx/tx delay config") this has caused
> misconfiguration of the PHY, rendering the network unusable.
>
> This was worked around for ACPI by ignoring the phy-mode property but
> the system is also used with DT. For DT instead if we're running on a
> SynQuacer force a working PHY mode, as well as the standard EDK2
> firmware with DT there are also some of these systems that use u-boot
> and might not initialise the PHY if not netbooting. Newer firmware
> imagaes for at least EDK2 are available from Linaro so print a warning
> when doing this.
>
> Fixes: 533dd11a12f6 ("net: socionext: Add Synquacer NetSec driver")
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Andrew
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