[RFC PATCH v2 3/7] dt-bindings: net: amlogic,meson-dwmac: add amlogic,t7-dwmac

Neil Armstrong neil.armstrong at linaro.org
Wed Oct 7 05:35:43 PDT 2026


On 10/7/26 10:26, Lucas Tanure wrote:
> The T7 has the same ethernet glue as the G12A, but the controller
> reaches memory through a pipeline stage that this SoC inserts in the
> bus path. That stage has a gate of its own, which no other member of
> the family has, and nothing else in Linux claims it. It is therefore
> switched off as unused, and the port can then no longer finish a
> transfer.
> 
> Describing it needs a fourth clock, and the fourth clock of the
> existing list drives the timing adjustment logic, which the T7 never
> uses. So the T7 gets a list of its own with the gate in that place,
> under the name the SD and eMMC controllers already use.
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Tanure <tanure at linux.com>
> ---
>   .../bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml     | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml
> index 90ef79161ab1..96118b4d1560 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ select:
>             - amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac
>             - amlogic,meson-axg-dwmac
>             - amlogic,meson-g12a-dwmac
> +          - amlogic,t7-dwmac
>     required:
>       - compatible
>   
> @@ -57,6 +58,47 @@ allOf:
>               - const: clkin1
>               - const: timing-adjustment
>   
> +  # The T7 applies the RGMII RX delay through PRG_ETH1 and never enables the
> +  # timing adjustment logic, so it has no timing-adjustment clock. What it does
> +  # need is the gate of the pipeline stage the controller reaches DRAM through.
> +  - if:
> +      properties:
> +        compatible:
> +          contains:
> +            const: amlogic,t7-dwmac
> +    then:
> +      properties:
> +        clocks:
> +          items:
> +            - description: GMAC main clock
> +            - description: First parent clock of the internal mux
> +            - description: Second parent clock of the internal mux
> +            - description:
> +                clock of the pipeline stage inserted in the bus path between
> +                the controller and the DRAM. Without it, the controller cannot
> +                complete DMA transfers.
> +
> +        clock-names:
> +          items:
> +            - const: stmmaceth
> +            - const: clkin0
> +            - const: clkin1
> +            - const: pipeline
> +
> +  # Delay definitions for Meson8b and newer (including T7)
> +  - if:
> +      properties:
> +        compatible:
> +          contains:
> +            enum:
> +              - amlogic,meson8b-dwmac
> +              - amlogic,meson8m2-dwmac
> +              - amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac
> +              - amlogic,meson-axg-dwmac
> +              - amlogic,meson-g12a-dwmac
> +              - amlogic,t7-dwmac
> +    then:
> +      properties:
>           amlogic,tx-delay-ns:

Do we still want to support the vendor property on t7 ?

Neil

>             enum: [0, 2, 4, 6]
>             default: 2
> @@ -106,6 +148,7 @@ allOf:
>             contains:
>               enum:
>                 - amlogic,meson-g12a-dwmac
> +              - amlogic,t7-dwmac
>       then:
>         properties:
>           rx-internal-delay-ps:
> @@ -143,6 +186,10 @@ properties:
>                 - amlogic,meson6-dwmac
>                 - amlogic,meson8m2-dwmac
>             - const: snps,dwmac
> +      - items:
> +          - const: amlogic,t7-dwmac
> +          - const: snps,dwmac-5.10a
> +          - const: snps,dwmac
>   
>     reg:
>       items:




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