[PATCHv1 0/6] Amlogic Soc - Add missing ethernet mdio compatible string

[Heiner Kallweit]

On 25.03.2021 16:40, Anand Moon wrote:
> Hi Heiner
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 18:49, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 25.03.2021 13:42, Anand Moon wrote:
>>> On most of the Amlogic SoC I observed that Ethernet would not get
>>> initialize when try to deploy the mainline kernel, earlier I tried to
>>> fix this issue with by setting ethernet reset but it did not resolve
>>> the issue see below.
>>>       resets = <&reset RESET_ETHERNET>;
>>>       reset-names = "stmmaceth";
>>>
>>> After checking what was the missing with Rockchip SoC dts
>>> I tried to add this missing compatible string and then it
>>> started to working on my setup.
>>>
>>> Also I tried to fix the device tree binding to validate the changes.
>>>
>>> Tested this on my Odroid-N2 and Odroid-C2 (64 bit) setup.
>>> I do not have ready Odroid C1 (32 bit) setup so please somebody test.
>>>
>>
>> When working on the Odroid-C2 I did not have such a problem.
>> And if you look at of_mdiobus_child_is_phy() and
>> of_mdiobus_register_phy() you'll see that your change shouldn't be
>> needed.
> I will check this out, thanks for your inputs.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate on:
>> - What is the exact problem you're facing? Best add a dmesg log.
>    1> I am aware all the distro kernel I have tested ethernet will work file
>    2> My issue is when I compile the mainline kernel with the default setting,
>        Ethernet interface will not receive any DHCP IP address from the router
>        Although the Ethernet interface comes up properly.
>       This does not happen frequently but I observed this at my end.

If the PHY wouldn't be detected, then your network would never work.
So there must be a different reason. You can manually assign a static IP
and then check what's going wrong: checking for missed / error packets,
running iperf, etc.


>   3> I tried to collect logs but I did not observe any kernel issue
> like panic or warning.
> 
>> - Which kernel version are you using?
>      I am using the mainline kernel with default settings.
> 
> -Anand
>