Subject: Re: [RFC] net: dsa: qca8k: implement rgmii-id mode

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:23:56 +0100

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:01:08PM +0100, Michal Vokáč wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> networking on my boards [1], which are currently in linux-next, suddently
> stopped working. I tracked it down to this commit 5ecdd77c61c8 ("net: dsa:
> qca8k: disable delay for RGMII mode") [2].
> 
> So I think the rgmii-id mode is obviously needed in my case.
> I was able to find a couple drivers that read tx/rx-delay or
> tx/rx-internal-delay from device tree. Namely:
> 
>   drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-mediatek.c
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-meson8b.c
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c
>   drivers/net/phy/dp83867.c
> 
> I would appreciate any hints how to add similar function to qca8k driver
> if that is the correct way to go. Can I take some of the above mentioned
> drivers as a good example for that? How should the binding look like?
> 
> I would expect something like this:
> 
> 	switch@0 {
> 		compatible = "qca,qca8334";
> 		reg = <0>;
> 
> 		switch_ports: ports {
> 			#address-cells = <1>;
> 			#size-cells = <0>;
> 
> 			ethphy0: port@0 {
> 				reg = <0>;
> 				label = "cpu";
> 				phy-mode = "rgmii-id";
> 				qca,tx-delay = <3>;
> 				qca,rx-delay = <3>;
> 				ethernet = <&fec>;
> 		};

Hi Michal

Your submission used:

+				ethphy0: port@0 {
+					reg = <0>;
+					label = "cpu";
+					phy-mode = "rgmii";
+					ethernet = <&fec>;
+
+					fixed-link {
+						speed = <1000>;
+						full-duplex;
+					};
+				};

This is good. If you have a fixed-link you can pass a phy-mode.

The comment that was removed was:

-               /* According to the datasheet, RGMII delay is enabled through
-                * PORT5_PAD_CTRL for all ports, rather than individual port
-                * registers
-                */

Is it possible to enable delays per port? Ideally, you want to enable
delays for just selected ports. Add another case for
PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID to enable the delays.

    Andrew