Issue found in Armada 370: 10Mbps ethernet connection can't get IP

Maggie Mae Roxas maggie.mae.roxas at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 18:47:44 PDT 2014


Hi Thomas,
Good day.

This is to confirm that "can't get IP at 10Mbps" issue is resolved
after I applied your patch in v3.13.9.
Thanks a lot for the help!

Regards,
Maggie Roxas

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Maggie Mae Roxas
<maggie.mae.roxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> Good day.
>
> Thank you very much for the quick feedback.
> I will apply this patch and send you the results by tomorrow 07/08
> morning (it is currently 07/07 evening as of this e-mail).
>
> Regards,
> Maggie Roxas
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Dear Maggie Mae Roxas,
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 19:56:27 -0700, Maggie Mae Roxas wrote:
>>
>>> We just found out last week that 10Mbps ethernet (SGMII) connection
>>> can't obtain IP in recent kernel versions (3.10.x and above). Here are
>>> the details:
>>>
>>> Processor: Armada 370 88F6707
>>> Board: Custom
>>> Kernel versions tried:
>>> 3.10.24 (issue exists)
>>> 3.13.9 (issue exists)
>>> 3.2.43 (issue does NOT exist)
>>> U-Boot versions tried: 2012_Q4 and 2013_Q1 from Marvell extranet
>>>
>>> Some more important notes:
>>> Both 100Mbps and 1000Mbps have no issues.
>>> Issue does not exist at u-boot level (via static IP address, confirmed
>>> via ping - results: 'x.x.x.x is alive')
>>> We have different LED configs for 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps - and LED
>>> shows 10Mbps is established (even ethtool does). However, we just
>>> can't obtain IP.
>>> Our kernel version 3.2.43 have patches from Marvell extranet (for Armada 370)
>>>
>>> Is there a known issue for this?
>>
>> Thanks for the report. Can you test the patch below?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
>> index 45beca1..d49f08d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
>> @@ -2529,7 +2529,7 @@ static void mvneta_adjust_link(struct net_device *ndev)
>>
>>                         if (phydev->speed == SPEED_1000)
>>                                 val |= MVNETA_GMAC_CONFIG_GMII_SPEED;
>> -                       else
>> +                       else if (phydev->speed == SPEED_100)
>>                                 val |= MVNETA_GMAC_CONFIG_MII_SPEED;
>>
>>                         mvreg_write(pp, MVNETA_GMAC_AUTONEG_CONFIG, val);
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
>> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
>> http://free-electrons.com



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