Re: [PATCH v2] net: stmmac: Wait a bit for the reset to take effect

[Paolo Abeni]

On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 20:21 +0100, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> otherwise the synopsys_id value may be read out wrong,
> because the GMAC_VERSION register might still be in reset
> state, for at least 1 us after the reset is de-asserted.
> 
> Add a wait for 10 us before continuing to be on the safe side.
> 
> > From what have you got that delay value?
> 
> Just try and error, with very old linux versions and old gcc versions
> the synopsys_id was read out correctly most of the time (but not always),
> with recent linux versions and recnet gcc versions it was read out
> wrongly most of the time, but again not always.
> I don't have access to the VHDL code in question, so I cannot
> tell why it takes so long to get the correct values, I also do not
> have more than a few hardware samples, so I cannot tell how long
> this timeout must be in worst case.
> Experimentally I can tell that the register is read several times
> as zero immediately after the reset is de-asserted, also adding several
> no-ops is not enough, adding a printk is enough, also udelay(1) seems to
> be enough but I tried that not very often, and I have not access to many
> hardware samples to be 100% sure about the necessary delay.
> And since the udelay here is only executed once per device instance,
> it seems acceptable to delay the boot for 10 us.
> 
> BTW: my hardware's synopsys id is 0x37.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please have a better look at the process documentation.

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I'm unsure why/how Andrew landed in the recipients list!?!

Cheers,

Paolo