Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net: macb: fix SGMII with inband aneg disabled

From: Conor Dooley

Date: Thu Mar 05 2026 - 09:14:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 05:56:15AM -0800, Charles Perry wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 09:42:19AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 09:37:23AM -0800, Charles Perry wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 04:23:30PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > >
> > > Are you able to check register 23, bit 13 of your PHY by any chance? Maybe
> > > with the mdio/mii commands in U-Boot if you have that.
> >
> > "mii read addr 23" returns 0660 for both PHYs in U-Boot.
>
> Oh, I think you fell into a trap of U-Boot's mii command.
>
> The arguments are always in hex even if you dont prepend "0x".

Eh no, actually I thought that you meant register 0x23. I'm not used to
register addresses being given in decimal.

> What "mii read 8 23" did is most likely read register 0x23, masked with
> 0x1f because clause 22 has only 32 registers. So it read register 0x3 which
> is the device identifier 2 register: 0x0660.
>
> The exact command should be "mii read 8 0x17", "mii read 9 0x17".

Both read back 2004

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