[PATCH 0/5] meson-gx: reset RGMII PHYs and configure TX delay

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 17 12:36:55 PST 2016


Hi Kevin,

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This partially fixes the 1000Mbit/s ethernet TX throughput issues (on
> networks which are not affected by the EEE problem, as reported here:
> [1]).
> The actual problem for the TX throughput issues was that the TX delay
> was applied twice:
> - once "accidentally" by the PHY (this was fixed with [2])
> - once by the MAC because there was a hardcoded TX delay (of 2ns),
>   this will be configurable with the changes from [0]
>
> These are the dts changes which belong to my other series (in v2
> these patches were part of the other series, upon request of the
> net maintainers I have split the .dts changes into their own series so
> we are able to take both through different trees):
> "[PATCH net-next v3 0/2] stmmac: dwmac-meson8b: configurable
> RGMII TX delay": [0].
> Thus this series depends on the ACK for the binding changes in the
> other series!
>
> I based these changes on my other series "[PATCH v2 0/2] GXL and GXM
> SCPI improvements": [3]
the DT binding changes for the meson8b-dwmac driver were ACK'ed by Rob
Herring, so you can proceed with this series once you applied the SCPI
patches.


Thank you!
Regards,
Martin



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