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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ARM: imx: allow to disable board specific PHY fixups
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:44:59AM +0200, David Jander wrote:
> > I have checked with the datasheet of the AR8035, and AFAICS, what the code
> > does is this:
> >
> > - Disable the SmartEEE feature of the phy. The comment in the code implies
> > that for some reason it doesn't work, but the reason itself is not given.
> > Anyway, disabling SmartEEE should IMHO opinion be controlled by a DT
> > setting. There is no reason to believe this problem is specific to the
> > i.MX6. Besides, it is a feature of the phy, so it seems logical to expose
> > that via the DT. Once that is done, it has no place here.
> >
> > - Set the external clock output to 125MHz. This is needed because the i.MX6
> > needs a 125MHz reference clock input. But it is not a requirement to use
> > this output. It is perfectly fine and possible to design a board that uses
> > an external oscillator for this. It is also possible that an i.MX6 design
> > has such a phy connected to a MAC behind a switch or some other interface.
> > Independent of i.MX6 this setting can also be necessary for other hardware
> > designs, based on different SoC's. In summary, this is a feature of the
> > specific hardware design at hand, and has nothing to do with the i.MX6
> > specifically. This should definitely be exposed through the DT and not be
> > here.
> >
> > - Enable TXC delay. To clarify, the RGMII specification version 1 specified
> > that the RXC and TXC traces should be routed long enough to introduce a
> > certain delay to the clock signal, or the delay should be introduced via
> > other means. In a later version of the spec, a provision was given for MAC
> > or PHY devices to generate this delay internally. The i.MX6 MAC interface
> > is unable to generate the required delay internally, so it has to be taken
> > care of either by the board layout, or by the PHY device. This is the
> > crucial point: The amount of delay set by the PHY delay register depends on
> > the board layout. It should NEVER be hard-coded in SoC setup code. The
> > correct way is to specify it in the DT. Needless to say that this too,
> > isn't i.MX6-specific.
>
> Let's say this is simple to do, shall we?
>
> So, if I disable the call to ar8031_phy_fixup() from ar8035_phy_fixup(),
> and add the following to the imx6qdl-sr-som.dtsi fragment:
>
> &fec {
> ...
> phy-handle = <&phy>;
>
> mdio {
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
>
> phy: ethernet-phy@0 {
> reg = <0>;
> qca,clk-out-frequency = <125000000>;
> };
> };
> };
>
> Note that phy-mode is already RGMII-ID. This should work, right?
>
> The link still comes up, which is good, but the PHY registers for
> the clock output are wrong.
>
> MMD 3 register 0x8016 contains 0xb282, not 0xb29a which it has
> _with_ the quirk - and thus the above clock frequency stated in
> DT is not being selected. Forcing this register to the right
> value restores networking.
>
> Yes, the PHY driver is being used:
>
> Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: attached PHY driver [Qualcomm Atheros AR8035] (mii_bus:phy_addr=2188000.ethernet-1:00, irq=POLL)
>
> So that's not the problem.
>
> Adding some debug shows that the phy_device that is being used is
> the correct one:
>
> Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: node=/soc/aips-bus@2100000/ethernet@2188000/mdio/ethernet-phy@0
>
> and it is correctly parsing the clk-out-frequency property:
>
> Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: cof=0 125000000
>
> When we get to attaching the PHY however:
>
> Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: clk_25m_mask=0004 clk_25m_reg=0000
>
> which is just wrong. That's because:
>
> if (at803x_match_phy_id(phydev, ATH8030_PHY_ID) ||
> at803x_match_phy_id(phydev, ATH8035_PHY_ID)) {
> priv->clk_25m_reg &= ~AT8035_CLK_OUT_MASK;
> priv->clk_25m_mask &= ~AT8035_CLK_OUT_MASK;
> }
>
> is patently untested - those "~" should not be there. These masks
> are one-bits-set for the values that comprise the fields, not
> zero-bits-set.
>
> So, I see a patch series is going to be necessary to fix the cockup(s)
> in the PHY driver before we can do anything with DT files.

I'm glad you found this issues :D I made a patch to fix it last week.
And it was a reason to send a patch for disabling _all_ fixups :)

Regards,
Oleksij

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