[PATCH net-next] net: phy: meson-gxl: support more G12A-internal PHY versions

Paolo Abeni pabeni at redhat.com
Tue Jan 17 04:04:30 PST 2023


Hello,

On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 21:38 +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 15.01.2023 19:43, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> > Hi Heiner,
> > 
> > Le 15/01/2023 à 18:09, Heiner Kallweit a écrit :
> > > On 15.01.2023 17:57, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 04:19:37PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > > > > On my SC2-based system the genphy driver was used because the PHY
> > > > > identifies as 0x01803300. It works normal with the meson g12a
> > > > > driver after this change.
> > > > > Switch to PHY_ID_MATCH_MODEL to cover the different sub-versions.
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Heiner
> > > > 
> > > > Are there any datasheets for these devices? Anything which documents
> > > > the lower nibble really is a revision?
> > > > 
> > > > I'm just trying to avoid future problems where we find it is actually
> > > > a different PHY, needs its own MATCH_EXACT entry, and then we find we
> > > > break devices using 0x01803302 which we had no idea exists, but got
> > > > covered by this change.
> > > > 
> > > The SC2 platform inherited a lot from G12A, therefore it's plausible
> > > that it's the same PHY. Also the vendor driver for SC2 gives a hint
> > > as it has the following compatible for the PHY:
> > > 
> > > compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0180.3301", "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22";
> > > 
> > > But you're right, I can't say for sure as I don't have the datasheets.
> > 
> > On G12A (& GXL), the PHY ID is set in the MDIO MUX registers,
> > please see:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-mux-meson-g12a.c#L36
> > 
> > So you should either add support for the PHY mux in SC2 or check
> > what is in the ETH_PHY_CNTL0 register.
> > 
> Thanks for the hint. I just checked and reading back ETH_PHY_CNTL0 at the
> end of g12a_enable_internal_mdio() gives me the expected result of 0x33010180.
> But still the PHY reports 3300.
> Even if I write some other random value to ETH_PHY_CNTL0, I get 0180/3300
> as PHY ID.
> 
> For u-boot I found the following:
> 
> https://github.com/khadas/u-boot/blob/khadas-vim4-r-64bit/drivers/net/phy/amlogic.c
> 
> static struct phy_driver amlogic_internal_driver = {
> 	.name = "Meson GXL Internal PHY",
> 	.uid = 0x01803300,
> 	.mask = 0xfffffff0,
> 	.features = PHY_BASIC_FEATURES,
> 	.config = &meson_phy_config,
> 	.startup = &meson_aml_startup,
> 	.shutdown = &genphy_shutdown,
> };
> 
> So it's the same PHY ID I'm seeing in Linux.
> 
> My best guess is that the following is the case:
> 
> The PHY compatible string in DT is the following in all cases:
> compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0180.3301", "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22";
> 
> Therefore id 0180/3301 is used even if the PHY reports something else.
> Means it doesn't matter which value you write to ETH_PHY_CNTL0.
> 
> I reduced the compatible string to compatible = "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22"
> and this resulted in the actual PHY ID being used.
> You could change the compatible in dts the same way for any g12a system
> and I assume you would get 0180/3300 too.
> 
> Remaining question is why the value in ETH_PHY_CNTL0 is ignored.

I [mis?]read the above as we can't completely rule out Andrew's doubt,
as such marking this patch as changed requested.

Cheers,

Paolo




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