[U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

[Peter Tyser]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:13 -0700, Li Yang-R58472 wrote:
> >Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full
> >duplex in SGMII mode"
> >
> >Hi Zhao,
> >
> >> In message <1289986984-2314-1-git-send-email-b26998 at freescale.com> you
> >wrote:
> >> > On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
> >> > VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
> >> > for SGMII mode cause link problems.
> >> >
> >> > Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.
> >
> >Based on my company's discussions with Freescale and Freescale's appnotes
> >I believe that the current implementation is correct.  I make reference to
> >some of this in the original patch:
> >http://old.nabble.com/-U-Boot---PATCH--tsec:-Force-TBI-PHY-to-1000Mbps-
> >full-duplex-in-SGMII-mode-td26188785.html
> >
> >We use Broadcom PHYs on our boards, which likely has something to do with
> >the discrepancies between the P2020DS/MPC8572DS vs the
> >XPedite5370/XPedite5500.  Unless you have additional information that
> >shows that in-band SGMII auto-negotiation does work per the spec I'd
> >prefer to keep the current tsec.c code and add CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
> >workarounds to the P2020DS (already done in commit
> >90b5bf211b85eee10c34cbeb907ce381142b7c99?) and MPC8572DS.
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> From the App Note you mentioned, I didn't find that the auto-negotiation can't be used.

My understanding is that the SGMII link is always at 1000Mbps speed -
see figure 1 from the app note.  Additionally look at figure 3.  My
understand from it, and the app note's text is that SGMII
auto-negotiation doesn't really occur - its just passing the PHY-side
auto-negotiation results to the Freescale MAC, which software then
configures.  I'm not sure what the purpose of the "SGMII
auto-negotiation" is - its not really auto-negotiating and the same
information can be read from the PHY via its MDIO interface, which is
what is happening on X-ES boards currently.

We were told by a Freescale FAE that SGMII auto-negotiation wasn't
supported, although 1000 BASE-X auto-negotation was (which mirrored our
test results).  I can dig up the old emails tomorrow at the office with
the details.

> Actually we need the auto-negotiation enabled for almost all Freescale reference boards such as P2020DS, MPC8572DS and P1/P2 RDB boards.  If we disable the auto-negotiation on these boards, the SGMII link won't work.  So I guess it might be more common to use auto-negotiation, and a fixed 1000M link is more like a special case.  I'm not sure what's the recommended way for SGMII PHY interconnect though.

And auto-negotation doesn't work on X-ES hardware which all use Broadcom
PHYs - which is why I made the original change after consulting a
Freescale FAE.  Its not a huge deal to me either way as long as the
XPedite5370 and XPedite5500 continue to not use SGMII auto-negotiation.
Can someone at Freescale provide a definitive answer about what the
proper SGMII auto-negotiation scheme is?  And has anyone used it
successfully or unsuccessfully with a non-Vitesse PHY?

Best,
Peter