Re: [PATCH 0/3] phy: sophgo: Add USB role switch for CV18XX/SG200X

From: Inochi Amaoto

Date: Tue Nov 10 2026 - 02:19:22 EST


On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 04:58:44PM +0800, Chen-Yu Yeh wrote:
> This makes one DTB work as both USB host and USB device on the Milk-V
> Duo 256M, following the discussion in the thread "Milk-V Duo 256M: USB
> peripheral mode works on mainline, how should dr_mode be handled?" on
> the sophgo list. There, Inochi pointed out that a dual-role switch is the
> right way and that the default should match the vendor image.
>
> The usb-role-switch support in dwc2 hangs on this SoC. It clears B-valid
> through the GOTGCTL session overrides while VBUS is present, and
> GOTGINT.SesEndDet then fires back to back. The vendor kernel writes only
> the ID override in the top syscon and lets dwc2 follow the Connector ID
> change, and this works on mainline too, without any change to dwc2. So
> the role switch lives in the PHY driver, which already owns those bits.
>
> Test setup
> ==========
>
> Milk-V Duo 256M, vendor buildroot rootfs, loaded by hand from U-Boot.
> Tree: v7.3-rc5 with these changes, CONFIG_USB_DWC2_DUAL_ROLE=y,
> CONFIG_USB_ETH=y. The series itself is based on current master; the files
> touched by patches 1 and 2 are the same in both trees.
>
> Tests 1 to 3 ran with CONFIG_USB_DWC2_DEBUG=y and the DT properties
> applied through an overlay. Test 4 ran with debug disabled and the
> board DTS from patch 3.
>
> In the logs below,
> R=/sys/class/usb_role/3000000.syscon:phy@48-role-switch
>
> 1. Default peripheral, bare board on a PC, nothing done after boot
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # ls /sys/class/usb_role/
> 3000000.syscon:phy@48-role-switch
> # cat $R/role
> device
> # devmem 0x03000048 32
> 0x000003C0
> # cat /sys/class/udc/*/state
> configured
>
> PC$ lsusb | grep 0525
> Bus 003 Device 009: ID 0525:a4a2 Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget
>
> 2. Switching at runtime, same setup
> -----------------------------------
>
> # echo host > $R/role
> # cat $R/role
> host
> # devmem 0x03000048 32
> 0x00000142
> # echo device > $R/role
> # cat $R/role
> device
> # devmem 0x03000048 32
> 0x000003C0
> # cat /sys/class/udc/*/state
> configured
>
> The switch was repeated without an interrupt storm, then:
>
> # echo none > $R/role
> # cat $R/role
> device
> # devmem 0x03000048 32
> 0x000003C0
>
> 3. Default host, on the USB & Ethernet IO board, nothing done after boot
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Only role-switch-default-mode differs from patch 3 here.
>
> [ 3.409672] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc2
> [ 3.666655] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
> [ 72.484979] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc2
> [ 74.804484] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
>
> The USB stick was plugged in by hand at about 72 s.
>
> # cat $R/role
> host
> # devmem 0x03000048 32
> 0x00000142
> # devmem 0x04340018 32
> 0xF300081E
> # devmem 0x04340440 32
> 0x00001005
> # echo none > $R/role
> # cat $R/role
> host
> # ls /dev/sd*
> /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4
>
> 4. Patch 3 as committed, debug disabled
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Bare board on a PC, nothing done after boot:
>
> # cat $R/role
> device
>
> PC: usb 3-9: New USB device found, idVendor=0525, idProduct=a4a2
> PC: usb 3-9: Product: RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget
>
> On the IO board, with a USB stick already plugged in at boot:
>
> # cat $R/role
> device
> # echo host > $R/role
> # cat $R/role
> host
> # dmesg | grep -E 'usb 1-1'
> [ 415.464739] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc2
> [ 415.940738] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc2
>
> Before this series
> ==================
>
> With usb-role-switch on the dwc2 node, "echo host" hangs the board in the
> SesEndDet storm, and so does boot without role-switch-default-mode.
>
> With dr_mode = "otg" and no role switch, writing the ID override by hand
> worked:
>
> devmem 0x03000048 32 0x3C0 -> high-speed RNDIS gadget on the PC
> devmem 0x03000048 32 0x142 -> disconnects from the PC, host side starts
>
> Three round trips were all correct, and ping over usb0 afterwards was
> 5/5. On the IO board, the hub and USB stick appeared after one toggle,
> but not at boot, because usb_add_hcd() moved the PHY to host after dwc2
> had already set up for device:
>
> at boot after one toggle
> GINTSTS 0x05000023 0x04200021
> GINTMSK 0xd0bc3cd4 0xf300081e (PrtInt masked -> unmasked)
> HPRT0 0x00021403 0x00001005 (ConnDet pending -> port enabled)
>
> Test 3 above reaches the right-hand values at boot without a toggle.
>
> Not tested
> ==========
>
> - A USB stick already plugged in at boot in the default host case.
> - Running on a master based tree: all tests used the v7.3-rc5 tree.
> - Boards other than the Duo 256M. Nothing changes on them, since the
> role switch is only registered when the PHY node has usb-role-switch.
>
> Question
> ========
>
> With patch 3, the hub on the IO board needs "echo host" after each boot.
> Should the IO board overlay (sg2002-milkv-duo256m-eth.dtso) set
> role-switch-default-mode = "host", or should it stay the same as the
> vendor image?
>
>
> Chen-Yu Yeh (3):
> dt-bindings: phy: sophgo,cv1800b-usb2-phy: Add USB role switch
> properties
> phy: sophgo: Add USB role switch support for CV18XX/SG200X
> riscv: dts: sophgo: sg2002-milkv-duo256m: Enable USB role switch
>
> .../bindings/phy/sophgo,cv1800b-usb2-phy.yaml | 11 ++
> .../boot/dts/sophgo/sg2002-milkv-duo256m.dts | 7 +-
> drivers/phy/sophgo/Kconfig | 2 +
> drivers/phy/sophgo/phy-cv1800-usb2.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++--
> 4 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
> --
> 2.43.0
>

NAK on this patch, I do not think fix phy is the right way for a
controller problem. See my new patch:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20261110070627.217946-1-inochiama@xxxxxxxxx

Regards,
Inochi