[PATCH v2 11/12] riscv: dts: starfive: visionfive-v1: Enable gmac and setup phy

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Sun Oct 29 15:50:24 PDT 2023


On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:41:23AM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On 10/29/23 20:45, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 06:27:11AM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >> The StarFive VisionFive V1 SBC has a Motorcomm YT8521 PHY supporting
> >> RGMII-ID, but requires manual adjustment of the RX internal delay to
> >> work properly.
> >>
> >> The default RX delay provided by the driver is 1.95 ns, which proves to
> >> be too high. Applying a 50% reduction seems to mitigate the issue.
> > 
> > I'm not so happy this cannot be explained. You are potentially heading
> > into horrible backwards compatibility problems with old DT blobs and
> > new kernels once this is explained and fixed.
> 
> It seems the visionfive-v2 board also required setting some delays, but
> unfortunately no details were provided:
> 
> 0104340a67b1 ("riscv: dts: starfive: visionfive 2: Add configuration of
> mac and phy")

That board also uses a YT8531 PHY. Its possible this is somehow to do
with the PHY. Which is why testing with the Microchip PHY is
important. That should answer the question is it a SoC or a PHY
problem.

	Andrew



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