4.5.0 on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found (regression from rc7)

[Marc Zyngier]

On 16/03/16 15:10, Bert Lindner wrote:
> On 2016-03-16 14:10, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 16.03.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Robin Murphy:
>>> On 16/03/16 11:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> On 16/03/16 11:19, Bert Lindner wrote:
>>>>> Hopefully this is the correct place and way to report this.
>>
>> The main discussion is on netdev list actually, CC'ed.
>>
>>>>> For the board sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2, there seems to be a problem
>>>>> with the eth0 PHY in mainline kernel 4.5.0 that developed since
>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7. Ethernet does not work, although eth0 is reported:
>>>>>
>>>>> root at lime2-079f:~# ip a l eth0
>>>>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
>>>>> default qlen 1000
>>>>>        link/ether 02:c9:05:02:07:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>>>>
>>>>>     Difference reported in dmesg:
>>>>>
>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7:
>>>>> [    9.379279] NET: Registered protocol family 10
>>>>> [   10.217148]  RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
>>>>> [   10.217195]  No MAC Management Counters available
>>>>> [   10.217627] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>>>>> [   15.206250] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up -
>>>>> 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
>>>>> [   15.206360] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
>>>>>
>>>>> 4.5.0:
>>>>> [    9.767125] NET: Registered protocol family 10
>>>>> [   10.357405] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found
>>>>> [   10.362382] eth0: Could not attach to PHY
>>>>> [   10.366557] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)
>>>>>
>>>>> .config is identical for both, also after make oldconfig, apart from
>>>>> comment with version number. DTB file is also identical between the two
>>>>> versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kernels are compiled on the board itself. /proc/version string:
>>>>> Linux version 4.5.0-rc7 (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1
>>>>> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 11:57:25 UTC 2016
>>>>> Linux version 4.5.0 (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro
>>>>> 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Tue Mar 15 11:39:01 UTC 2016
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if more info is needed, if I should post complete
>>>>> .config, test compile with a particular config or patch, etc. Part of
>>>>> .config below.
>>>>
>>>> Can you please try reverting 88f8b1b ("stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No PHY found'
>>>> regression") and report whether or not this changes anything? This seems
>>>> to be the only stmac patch between -rc7 and release...
>>>
>>> Sounds like the same thing as the giant ongoing discussion thread here:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/159007/focus=402830
>>
>> v4 fixes for 4.5 are here:
>>
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598195/ (revert)
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598196/
>>
>> v2 fixes for linux-next here:
>>
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598331/ (revert)
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598332/
>>
>> Please let Peppe know whether they work for you guys.
> 
> Hi guys - I can confirm 4.5.0 minus 88f8b1b works for me:
> 
> root at lime2-079f:~# cat /proc/version
> Linux version 4.5.0-minus-88f8b1b (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1 
> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #2 SMP Wed Mar 16 12:50:03 UTC 2016
> 
>  From dmesg output:
> [    9.731730] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> [   10.516893]  RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
> [   10.516948]  No MAC Management Counters available
> [   10.517374] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> [   15.505548] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 
> 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
> [   15.505660] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> 
> .. and connected over ethernet.

Good to know, thanks. Could you also give the potential fix a go (as
mentioned by Andreas)? Just to make sure that whatever gets merged next
will actually fix the issue.

Thanks,

	M.
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