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Message-ID: <0beab72d-2919-447f-88ff-fb7c92b28b61@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:05:40 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Yang Xiwen <forbidden405@...look.com>
Cc: Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/6] net: hisilicon: add support for
 hisi_femac core on Hi3798MV200

> It's not MAC which behaves wrongly, it's the MDIO bus. If we don't follow
> the reset procedure properly. The MDIO bus fails to respond to any
> write/read commands. But i believe MAC controller and PHY are still working.
> I recalled that it can still transfer network packets, though it fails to
> read PHY registers from MDIO bus so only 10Mbps is available (And the phy id
> read out is always 0x0, normally it's 0x20669853).
> 
> Maybe during initialization, PHY sent some garbage to MDIO bus and killed
> it.

MDIO bus masters are really simple things, not much more than a shift
register. I find it hard to believe the MDIO bus master breaks because
of reset order. If the MDIO pins went to SoC pins, it would be simple
to prove, a bus-pirate or similar can capture the signals and sigrok
can decode MDIO.

To me, its more likely the PHY side of the MDIO bus is broken somehow.

   Andrew

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