Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: broadcom: set features explicitly for BCM54616S

[Tao Ren]

On 7/30/19 11:00 PM, Tao Ren wrote:
> On 7/30/19 10:53 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> On 31.07.2019 02:12, Tao Ren wrote:
>>> On 7/29/19 11:00 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>>> On 30.07.2019 07:05, Tao Ren wrote:
>>>>> On 7/29/19 8:35 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 05:25:32PM -0700, Tao Ren wrote:
>>>>>>> BCM54616S feature "PHY_GBIT_FEATURES" was removed by commit dcdecdcfe1fc
>>>>>>> ("net: phy: switch drivers to use dynamic feature detection"). As dynamic
>>>>>>> feature detection doesn't work when BCM54616S is working in RGMII-Fiber
>>>>>>> mode (different sets of MII Control/Status registers being used), let's
>>>>>>> set "PHY_GBIT_FEATURES" for BCM54616S explicitly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Tao
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What exactly does it get wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      Thanks
>>>>>> 	Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>>
>>>>> BCM54616S is set to RGMII-Fiber (1000Base-X) mode on my platform, and none of the features (1000BaseT/100BaseT/10BaseT) can be detected by genphy_read_abilities(), because the PHY only reports 1000BaseX_Full|Half ability in this mode.
>>>>>
>>>> Are you going to use the PHY in copper or fibre mode?
>>>> In case you use fibre mode, why do you need the copper modes set as supported?
>>>> Or does the PHY just start in fibre mode and you want to switch it to copper mode?
>>>
>>> Hi Heiner,
>>>
>>> The phy starts in fiber mode and that's the mode I want.
>>> My observation is: phydev->link is always 0 (Link status bit is never set in MII_BMSR) by using dynamic ability detection on my machine. I checked phydev->supported and it's set to "AutoNeg | TP | MII | Pause | Asym_Pause" by dynamic ability detection. Is it normal/expected? Or maybe the fix should go to different places? Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>
>> Not sure whether you stated already which kernel version you're using.
>> There's a brand-new extension to auto-detect 1000BaseX:
>> f30e33bcdab9 ("net: phy: Add more 1000BaseX support detection")
>> It's included in the 5.3-rc series.
> 
> I'm running kernel 5.2.0. Thank you for the sharing and I didn't know the patch. Let me check it out.

I applied above patch and ca72efb6bdc7 ("net: phy: Add detection of 1000BaseX link mode support") to my 5.2.0 tree but got following warning when booting up my machine:

"PHY advertising (0,00000200,000062c0) more modes than genphy supports, some modes not advertised".

The BCM54616S PHY on my machine only reports 1000-X features in RGMII->1000Base-KX mode. Is it a known problem?

Anyways let me see if I missed some dependency/follow-up patches..


Cheers,

Tao