Hi Ard, On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 17:11, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 04:46:23PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 16:44, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 04:20:36PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > > > I just upgraded my arm64 SynQuacer box to 5.8.16 and lost all network > > > > > connectivity. > > > > > > > > Hi Ard > > > > > > > > Please could you point me at the DT files. > > > > > > > > > This box has a on-SoC socionext 'netsec' network controller wired to > > > > > a Realtek 80211e PHY, and this was working without problems until > > > > > the following commit was merged > > > > > > > > It could be this fix has uncovered a bug in the DT file. Before this > > > > fix, if there is an phy-mode property in DT, it could of been ignored. > > > > Now the phy-handle property is correctly implemented. So it could be > > > > the DT has the wrong value, e.g. it has rgmii-rxid when maybe it > > > > should have rgmii-id. > > > > > > > > > > This is an ACPI system. The phy-mode device property is set to 'rgmii' > > > > Hi Ard > > > > Please try rgmii-id. > > > > Also, do you have the schematic? Can you see if there are any > > strapping resistors? It could be, there are strapping resistors to put > > it into rgmii-id. Now that the phy-mode properties is respected, the > > reset defaults are being over-written to rgmii, which breaks the link. > > Or the bootloader has already set the PHY mode to rgmii-id. > > > > You can also use '' as the phy-mode, which results in > > PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_NA, which effectively means, don't touch the PHY > > mode, something else has already set it up. This might actually be the > > correct way to go for ACPI. In the DT world, we tend to assume the > > bootloader has done the absolute minimum and Linux should configure > > everything. The ACPI takes the opposite view, the firmware will do the > > basic hardware configuration, and Linux should not touch it, or ask > > ACPI to modify it. > > > > Indeed, the firmware should have set this up.
Would EDK2 take care of the RGMII Rx/Tx delays even when configured to use a DT instead of ACPI? > This would mean we could > do this in the driver: it currently uses > > priv->phy_interface = device_get_phy_mode(&pdev->dev); > > Can we just assign that to PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_NA instead? Thanks /Ilias
