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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:23:59 -0500
From: Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
To: Ravi Gunasekaran <r-gunasekaran@...com>
CC: <kuba@...nel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        <pabeni@...hat.com>, <rogerq@...nel.org>, <andrew@...n.ch>,
        <f.fainelli@...il.com>, <horms@...nel.org>,
        <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <srk@...com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: ethernet: ti: davinci_mdio: Update K3
 SoCs list for errata i2329

On 16:47-20231020, Ravi Gunasekaran wrote:
> The errata i2329 affects certain K3 SoC versions. The k3-socinfo.c
> driver generates the revision string for different variants of the
> same SoC in an incremental fashion. This is not true for all SoCs.
> An example case being J721E, for which the actual silicon revision
> names are 1.0, 1.1 for its variants, while the k3-socinfo.c driver
> interprets these variants as revisions 1.0, 2.0 respectively,
> which is incorrect.
> 
> While the work to fixup the silicon revision string is posted
> to the soc tree, this patch serves as a fail-safe step by maintaining
> a list of correct and incorrect revision strings, so that the fixup
> work does not break the errata workaround for such corrected SoCs.
> 
> The silicon revisions affected by the errata i2329 can be found under
> the MDIO module in the "Advisories by Modules" section of each
> SoC errata document listed below
> 
> AM62x: https://www.ti.com/lit/er/sprz487c/sprz487c.pdf
> AM64X: https://www.ti.com/lit/er/sprz457g/sprz457g.pdf
> AM65X: https://www.ti.com/lit/er/sprz452i/sprz452i.pdf
> J7200: https://www.ti.com/lit/er/sprz491d/sprz491d.pdf
> J721E: https://www.ti.com/lit/er/sprz455d/sprz455d.pdf
> J721S2: https://www.ti.com/lit/er/sprz530b/sprz530b.pdf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Gunasekaran <r-gunasekaran@...com>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1:
> * For J721E, retained the incorrect SR ID and added the correct one
> * Add AM65x SR2.1 to the workaround list
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231018140009.1725-1-r-gunasekaran@ti.com/
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c
> index 628c87dc1d28..25aaef502edc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c
> @@ -516,9 +516,11 @@ static const struct soc_device_attribute k3_mdio_socinfo[] = {
>  	{ .family = "AM64X", .revision = "SR2.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "AM65X", .revision = "SR1.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "AM65X", .revision = "SR2.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
> +	{ .family = "AM65X", .revision = "SR2.1", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "J7200", .revision = "SR1.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "J7200", .revision = "SR2.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "J721E", .revision = "SR1.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
> +	{ .family = "J721E", .revision = "SR1.1", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "J721E", .revision = "SR2.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data },
>  	{ .family = "J721S2", .revision = "SR1.0", .data = &am65_mdio_soc_data},
>  	{ /* sentinel */ },
> 

Looks like every device is impacted -> so, why not just flip the
logic to indicate devices that are NOT impacted? is'nt that a smaller
list?

-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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