Re: [PATCH] net: lantiq: Wait for the GPHY firmware to be ready

[Martin Blumenstingl]

Hi Andrew,

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:57 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add a 300ms delay after initializing all GPHYs to ensure that the GPHY
> > firmware had enough time to initialize and to appear on the MDIO bus.
> > Unfortunately there is no (known) documentation on what the minimum time
> > to wait after releasing the reset on an internal PHY so play safe and
> > take the one for the external variant. Only wait after the last GPHY
> > firmware is loaded to not slow down the initialization too much (
> > xRX200 has two GPHYs but newer SoCs have at least three GPHYs).
>
> Hi Martin
>
> Could this be moved into gswip_gphy_fw_list() where the actual
> firmware download happens?
>
> To me that seems like the more logical place.
good point, that's closer to the loop over all GPHY instances.
I've taken care of it in v2 - many thanks!


Best regards,
Martin