[PATCH v2 12/12] [UNTESTED] riscv: dts: starfive: beaglev-starlight: Enable gmac

Emil Renner Berthing emil.renner.berthing at canonical.com
Sat Dec 16 11:24:40 PST 2023


Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On 11/28/23 02:40, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> > On 11/26/23 23:10, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> >> Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >>> The BeagleV Starlight SBC uses a Microchip KSZ9031RNXCA PHY supporting
> >>> RGMII-ID.
> >>>
>
> [...]
>
> >> You've alse removed the phy reset gpio on the Starlight board:
> >>
> >>   snps,reset-gpios = <&gpio 63 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>
> >>
> >> Why?
> >
> > I missed this in v1 as the gmac handling was done exclusively in
> > jh7100-common. Thanks for noticing!
>
> Hi Emil,
>
> I think the reset doesn't actually trigger because "snps,reset-gpios" is
> not a valid property, it should have been "snps,reset-gpio" (without the
> trailing "s").
>
> However, this seems to be deprecated now, and the recommended approach
> would be to define the reset gpio in the phy node, which I did in [1].
>
> Hopefully this won't cause any unexpected behaviour. Otherwise we should
> probably simply drop it.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231215204050.2296404-8-cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com/

Oh, nice catch! With your v3 patches the Starlight board still works fine and
GPIO63 is correctly grabbed and used for "PHY reset".

/Emil



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