Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6dl: SolidRun: add phy node with 100Mb/s max-speed

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 03:56:52PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Tinywrkb confirmed to me in private communication that revert of
> > 5502b218e001 fixes Ethernet for him on effected system.
> > 
> > He also referred me to an old Cubox-i spec that lists 10/100 Ethernet
> > only for i.MX6 Solo/DualLite variants of Cubox-i. It turns out that
> > there was a plan to use a different 10/100 PHY for Solo/DualLite
> > SOMs. This plan never materialized. All SolidRun i.MX6 SOMs use the same
> > AR8035 PHY that supports 1Gb.
> > 
> > Commit 5502b218e001 might be triggering a hardware issue on the affected
> > Cubox-i. I could not reproduce the issue here with Cubox-i and a Dual
> > SOM variant running v5.3-rc8. I have no Solo/DualLite variant handy at
> > the moment.
> 
> Could somebody with an affected device show us the output of ethtool
> with and without 5502b218e001. Does one show 1G has been negotiated,
> and the other 100Mbps? If this is true, how does it get 100Mbps
> without that patch? We are missing a piece of the puzzle.

Hang on.  5502b218e001 is in 5.2 already - it was merged as part of the
v5.1 merge window.  That means my imx6 Solo Hummingboard is already
running it with the AR8035 PHY, and it works fine.

# dmesg
...
OF: fdt: Machine model: SolidRun HummingBoard Solo/DualLite
...
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                             1000baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Link detected: yes

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