Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A733 GMAC210

[Jerome Brunet]

On jeu. 10 sept. 2026 at 12:59, Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jerome,
>
> On 9/10/26 12:25, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>> The A733 GMAC210 is a DesignWare MAC 5.20 using an Allwinner glue close to
>> the A523 GMAC200 already supported by this driver, with the following
>> differences to handle:
>> 
>> * The glue configuration registers are a dedicated MMIO region of the
>>   controller instead of a syscon register. This new register region
>>   appears to be in the reset domain of stmmac's main reset. This requires
>>   the glue driver to handle the reset rather than letting stmmac deal with
>>   it.
>> * The TX clock delay value is 5 bits wide, split over 2 register fields,
>>   allowing delays up to 3100ps.
>> * The DMA channels have their own interrupt lines, so the per-DMA-channel
>>   interrupt mode is enabled, as the vendor SDK does.
>> * TX LPI clock gating is supported, as the vendor SDK indicates. Follow
>>   the PHY capability with STMMAC_FLAG_EN_TX_LPI_CLK_PHY_CAP rather than
>>   forcing it on with the deprecated 'snps,en-tx-lpi-clockgating' DT
>>   property.
>> 
>> Unlike the A523, both GMAC instances are supported by the same driver.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]
>
>> +
>> +static struct regmap *sun60i_gmac210_get_regmap(struct platform_device *pdev,
>> +						struct plat_stmmacenet_data *plat)
>> +{
>> +	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>> +	void __iomem *base;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	base = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 1);
>> +	if (IS_ERR(base)) {
>> +		dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(base), "unable to get glue memory region\n");
>> +		return ERR_CAST(base);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	if (!plat->stmmac_rst || !plat->stmmac_ahb_rst) {
>
> Why check stmmac_ahb_rst, but not do anything with it ?

Not strictly required, it was cheap to do and catch mis-configuration
since the stmmac treat them as optional. I'll drop it

>
>> +		dev_err(dev, "missing required reset controls\n");
>> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * The configuration registers are inside the controller
>> +	 * reset domain, so the reset must happen before any write to them
>> +	 * and should not be done again by stmmac or the configuration will
>> +	 * be lost.
>> +	 */
>> +	ret = reset_control_assert(plat->stmmac_rst);
>> +	if (!ret)
>> +		ret = reset_control_deassert(plat->stmmac_rst);
>> +
>> +	if (ret) {
>> +		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "device reset failed\n");
>> +		return ERR_PTR(ret);
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, sun60i_gmac210_reset_assert,
>> +				       plat->stmmac_rst);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ERR_PTR(ret);
>> +
>> +	plat->stmmac_rst = NULL;
>> +
>> +	return devm_regmap_init_mmio(&pdev->dev, base, &sun60i_a733_regmap_cfg);
>
> I wonder if this is the first glue to face this...
>
> If you need further setup to be done after reset has been deasserted, I suggest
> adding a dedicated callback in plat_stmmacenet_data, instead of doing this behind
> the generic code's back.
>
> maybe something like "post_reset_init()", something like that ?
>

I'll check in this direction.

The idea was to do things behind anything's back, more to handle the
specifities of this SoC without polluting the rest. The timing seemed a
bit sensitve. For example touching the other reset in here broke the
link for some reason (recognize as GMII instead of RGMII)

> the ->mac_setup already runs after reset, but isn't really for this type of usecase.
>
> For readability of the patch, maybe you should split this patch to first do the
> a523 rework, then add a733 support.

ok

>
> Thanks !
>
> Maxime

-- 
Jerome