[PATCH RFC/RFT 0/2] net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A733 GMAC210

From: Jerome Brunet

Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 12:53:46 EST


The A733 GMAC210 is a DesignWare MAC 5.20 with an Allwinner glue close to
the A523 GMAC200 already supported by dwmac-sun55i, but with a few
significant differences:

* The glue configuration registers are a dedicated MMIO region of the
controller instead of a syscon register.
* That region is inside the controller reset domain, so the reset must be
released before the configuration is written, and must not be asserted
again afterwards or the configuration is lost.
* The DMA channels have their own interrupt lines.
* A PTP reference clock and an AHB reset are needed.
* The controllers do not require a power domain (AFAIK).
* The TX clock delay value is 5 bits wide instead of 3, split over 2
register fields.

The DT changes for the A733 and the Cubie A7A board are not part of this
series and will be sent separately through the sunxi tree.

Tested on a Cubie A7A, RGMII with an external PHY on GMAC0.

Full disclosure: at the moment there is a problem with EEE/LPI while
testing on the Cubie A7A. If the device stays in LPI mode long enough, the
link sometimes (but not always) goes down, coming back up when the device
exits LPI mode.

I'm currently working around the problem by adding the following
properties to the PHY node:

eee-broken-100tx;
eee-broken-1000t;

Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jerome Brunet (2):
dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A733 GMAC210 compatible
net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A733 GMAC210

.../bindings/net/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-emac.yaml | 130 +++++++++++++++---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun55i.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
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base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
change-id: 20260731-allwinner-a733-gmac-support-163bde10c152

Best regards,
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Jerome