> Andrew, after investigate the issue, there have one MII event coming later > then > clearing MII pending event when writing MSCR register (MII_SPEED). > > Check the rtl design by co-working with our IC designer, the MII event > generation > condition: > - writing MSCR: > - mmfr[31:0]_not_zero & mscr[7:0]_is_zero & mscr_reg_data_in[7:0] != 0 > - writing MMFR: > - mscr[7:0]_not_zero > > mmfr[31:0]: current MMFR register value > mscr[7:0]: current MSCR register value > mscr_reg_data_in[7:0]: the value wrote to MSCR > > > Below patch can fix the block issue: > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c > @@ -2142,6 +2142,15 @@ static int fec_enet_mii_init(struct platform_device > *pdev) > if (suppress_preamble) > fep->phy_speed |= BIT(7); > > + /* > + * Clear MMFR to avoid to generate MII event by writing MSCR. > + * MII event generation condition: > + * - writing MSCR: > + * - mmfr[31:0]_not_zero & mscr[7:0]_is_zero & > mscr_reg_data_in[7:0] != 0 > + * - writing MMFR: > + * - mscr[7:0]_not_zero > + */ > + writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_MII_DATA); > writel(fep->phy_speed, fep->hwp + FEC_MII_SPEED);
Hi Andy Thanks for digging into the internal of the FEC. Just to make sure i understand this correctly: In fec_enet_mii_init() we have: holdtime = DIV_ROUND_UP(clk_get_rate(fep->clk_ipg), 100000000) - 1; fep->phy_speed = mii_speed << 1 | holdtime << 8; writel(fep->phy_speed, fep->hwp + FEC_MII_SPEED); /* Clear any pending transaction complete indication */ writel(FEC_ENET_MII, fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT); You are saying this write to the FEC_MII_SPEED register can on some SoCs trigger an FEC_ENET_MII event. And because it does not happen immediately, it happens after the clear which is performed here? Sometime later we then go into fec_enet_mdio_wait(), the event is still pending, so we read the FEC_MII_DATA register too early? But this does not fully explain the problem. This should only affect the first MDIO transaction, because as we exit fec_enet_mdio_wait() the event is cleared. But Leonard reported that all reads return 0, not just the first. Andrew