Re: [PATCH net-next v19 5/6] net: dsa: mxl862xx: recover switch stuck in MCUboot rescue mode

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Sun Oct 04 2026 - 10:50:08 EST


On Sat, Oct 03, 2026 at 04:53:34PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> A broken or interrupted firmware image, or the sticky rescue bit, keeps
> the switch in its MCUboot loader, which exposes only the clause-22 SMDIO
> download interface. The clause-45 firmware API never comes up there, so
> an ordinary probe would spend its whole timeout on a mailbox nothing
> answers before failing.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew