[PATCH net-next v4 16/16] Documentation: networking: Add timestamp related APIs to OA TC6 framework
From: Selvamani Rajagopal via B4 Relay
Date: Sat Jun 06 2026 - 01:51:41 EST
From: Selvamani Rajagopal <Selvamani.Rajagopal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Added new APIs to support hardware timestamp feature as defined in
OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY serial interface specification.
Signed-off-by: Selvamani Rajagopal <Selvamani.Rajagopal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 76 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst b/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst
index fe2aabde923a..694d9485b1c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ OPEN Alliance TC6 Framework
- Forwards the received Ethernet frame from 10Base-T1x MAC-PHY to n/w
subsystem.
+- If supported by the hardware and enabled, updates hardware timestamp
+ in skb, when indicated by one of the three timestamp capture registers
+ through TSC fields of the header.
+
Data Transaction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -495,3 +499,75 @@ the MAC-PHY.
Zero align receive frame feature can be enabled to align all receive ethernet
frames data to start at the beginning of any receive data chunk payload with a
start word offset (SWO) of zero.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_ptp_register(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ struct ptp_clock_info *info);
+
+Registers the PTP hardware clock related functions with the kernel.
+This API simply registers. Initialization of the fields in the
+ptp_clock_info structure are left to the vendor as programming hardware
+timer is expected to be vendor dependent. The fields max_adj, owner,
+and all the functions for the clock operations, like adjfine, gettimex64,
+settime64, adjtime are expected to be initialized in the structure before
+calling the registering the hardware clock.
+
+.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_ptp_unregister(struct oa_tc6 *tc6);
+
+Unregisters the PTP hardware clock related callbacks.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_ioctl(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, struct ifreq *rq, \
+ int cmd);
+
+ioctl interface to handle hardware timestamp and PHY related commands.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_get_ts_info(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ struct kernel_ethtool_ts_info *info);
+
+Provides timestamp related settings that are supported to ethtool.
+
+.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_hwtstamp_get(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg);
+
+Returns hardware timestamp configuration. Part of net_device_ops callbacks.
+
+.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_get_ts_stats(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ struct ethtool_ts_stats *ts_stats);
+
+Provides hardware timestamp related traffic statistics for ethtool.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_hwtstamp_set(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ struct kernel_hwtstamp_config *cfg);
+
+Helper to set hardware timestamp configuration. Part of net_device_ops
+callbacks.
+
+.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_set_vend1_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, int mms);
+
+Helper to map MDIO_MMD_VEND1 command to vendor specific Memory Map Select
+(MMS) value. This function offers flexibility for vendors that may have
+used any MMS value between 10 and 15 as allowed by the specification.
+MDIO_MMD_VEND2 is already mapped to MMS4 in the OA TC6 frame work code.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_registers_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ u16 address, u16 mms, \
+ u32 value[], u8 length);
+Writing multiple consecutive registers starting from @address for the
+given @mms memory map selector in the MAC-PHY. Maximum of 128 consecutive
+registers can be written starting at @address.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_register_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ u16 address, u16 mms, \
+ u32 value);
+Write a single register addressed by @address and @mms in the MAC-PHY.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_registers_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ u16 address, u16 mms, \
+ u32 value[], u8 length);
+Reading multiple consecutive registers starting from @address for the
+given @mms memory map selector value, in the MAC-PHY. Maximum of 128
+consecutive registers can be read starting at @address.
+
+.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_register_mms(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
+ u16 address, u16 mms, \
+ u32 *value);
+Read a single register addressed by @address and @mms in the MAC-PHY.
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