Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: imx: allow to disable board specific PHY fixups

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:44:59AM +0200, David Jander wrote:
> I have checked with the datasheet of the AR8035, and AFAICS, what the code
> does is this:
> 
>  - Disable the SmartEEE feature of the phy. The comment in the code implies
>    that for some reason it doesn't work, but the reason itself is not given.
>    Anyway, disabling SmartEEE should IMHO opinion be controlled by a DT
>    setting. There is no reason to believe this problem is specific to the
>    i.MX6. Besides, it is a feature of the phy, so it seems logical to expose
>    that via the DT. Once that is done, it has no place here.
> 
>  - Set the external clock output to 125MHz. This is needed because the i.MX6
>    needs a 125MHz reference clock input. But it is not a requirement to use
>    this output. It is perfectly fine and possible to design a board that uses
>    an external oscillator for this. It is also possible that an i.MX6 design
>    has such a phy connected to a MAC behind a switch or some other interface.
>    Independent of i.MX6 this setting can also be necessary for other hardware
>    designs, based on different SoC's. In summary, this is a feature of the
>    specific hardware design at hand, and has nothing to do with the i.MX6
>    specifically. This should definitely be exposed through the DT and not be
>    here.
> 
>  - Enable TXC delay. To clarify, the RGMII specification version 1 specified
>    that the RXC and TXC traces should be routed long enough to introduce a
>    certain delay to the clock signal, or the delay should be introduced via
>    other means. In a later version of the spec, a provision was given for MAC
>    or PHY devices to generate this delay internally. The i.MX6 MAC interface
>    is unable to generate the required delay internally, so it has to be taken
>    care of either by the board layout, or by the PHY device. This is the
>    crucial point: The amount of delay set by the PHY delay register depends on
>    the board layout. It should NEVER be hard-coded in SoC setup code. The
>    correct way is to specify it in the DT. Needless to say that this too,
>    isn't i.MX6-specific.

Let's say this is simple to do, shall we?

So, if I disable the call to ar8031_phy_fixup() from ar8035_phy_fixup(),
and add the following to the imx6qdl-sr-som.dtsi fragment:

&fec {
...
        phy-handle = <&phy>;

        mdio {
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <0>;

                phy: ethernet-phy@0 {
                        reg = <0>;
                        qca,clk-out-frequency = <125000000>;
                };
        };
};

Note that phy-mode is already RGMII-ID.  This should work, right?

The link still comes up, which is good, but the PHY registers for
the clock output are wrong.

MMD 3 register 0x8016 contains 0xb282, not 0xb29a which it has
_with_ the quirk - and thus the above clock frequency stated in
DT is not being selected.  Forcing this register to the right
value restores networking.

Yes, the PHY driver is being used:

Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: attached PHY driver [Qualcomm Atheros AR8035] (mii_bus:phy_addr=2188000.ethernet-1:00, irq=POLL)

So that's not the problem.

Adding some debug shows that the phy_device that is being used is
the correct one:

Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: node=/soc/aips-bus@2100000/ethernet@2188000/mdio/ethernet-phy@0

and it is correctly parsing the clk-out-frequency property:

Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: cof=0 125000000

When we get to attaching the PHY however:

Qualcomm Atheros AR8035 2188000.ethernet-1:00: clk_25m_mask=0004 clk_25m_reg=0000

which is just wrong.  That's because:

                if (at803x_match_phy_id(phydev, ATH8030_PHY_ID) ||
                    at803x_match_phy_id(phydev, ATH8035_PHY_ID)) {
                        priv->clk_25m_reg &= ~AT8035_CLK_OUT_MASK;
                        priv->clk_25m_mask &= ~AT8035_CLK_OUT_MASK;
                }

is patently untested - those "~" should not be there.  These masks
are one-bits-set for the values that comprise the fields, not
zero-bits-set.

So, I see a patch series is going to be necessary to fix the cockup(s)
in the PHY driver before we can do anything with DT files.

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