On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 05:03:22PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote: > It has been noticed that RTL8211E PHY stops detecting and reporting events > when EEE is successfully advertised and RXC stopping in LPI is enabled. > The freeze happens right after 3.0.10 bit (PC1R "Clock Stop Enable" > register) is set. At the same time LED2 stops blinking as if EEE mode has > been disabled. Notably the network traffic still flows through the PHY > with no obvious problem. Anyway if any MDIO read procedure is performed > after the "RXC stop in LPI" mode is enabled PHY gets to be unfrozen, LED2 > starts blinking and PHY interrupts happens again. The problem has been > noticed on RTL8211E PHY working together with DW GMAC 3.73a MAC and > reporting its event via a dedicated IRQ signal. (Obviously the problem has > been unnoticed in the polling mode, since it gets naturally fixed by the > periodic MDIO read procedure from the PHY status register - BMSR.) > > In order to fix that problem we suggest to locally re-implement the MMD > write method for RTL8211E PHY and perform a dummy read right after the > PC1R register is accessed to enable the RXC stopping in LPI mode.
Hi Serge Is this listed in an Errata from Realtek? Andrew
