[U-Boot] [PATCH] drivers: net: phy: atheros: apply the previous register setting for AR8031 to fix the voltage peak issue

[Sekhar Nori]

On Saturday 04 February 2017 12:26 AM, Ken.Lin wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sekhar Nori [mailto:nsekhar at ti.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:44 PM
>> To: ken <Ken Lin>; sbabic at denx.de
>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; martin.donnelly at ge.com; Ken.Lin; Peter.Chiang;
>> Peter.Stretz; akshay.bhat at timesys.com; joe.hershberger at ni.com;
>> albert.u.uboot at aribaud.net
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: phy: atheros: apply the previous register
>> setting for AR8031 to fix the voltage peak issue
>>
>> On Friday 03 February 2017 02:53 AM, ken <Ken Lin> wrote:
>>> Apply the previous setting for the reserved bits in SetDes Test and
>>> System Mode Control register to avoid the voltage peak issue while we
>>> do the IEEE PHY comformance test
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: ken Lin <ken.lin at advantech.com> Tested on Advantech
>>> DMS-BA16 board
>>> Tested-by: Ken Lin <ken.lin at advantech.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/net/phy/atheros.c | 6 ++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c b/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c
>>> index b34cdd3d87..82fe228604 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c
>>> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ static int ar8021_config(struct phy_device *phydev)
>>>
>>>  static int ar8031_config(struct phy_device *phydev)  {
>>> +	int regval;
>>> +
>>>  	if (phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_TXID ||
>>>  	    phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID) {
>>>  		phy_write(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_ADDR_REG, @@
>>> -44,6 +46,10 @@ static int ar8031_config(struct phy_device *phydev)
>>>  			  AR803x_RGMII_RX_CLK_DLY);
>>>  	}
>>>
>>> +        phy_write(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_ADDR_REG, AR803x_DEBUG_REG_5);
>>> +        regval = phy_read(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_DATA_REG);
>>> +        phy_write(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_DATA_REG,
>>> + regval | 0x3C47);
>>
>> I thought I had responded to this, but probably the mail did not go through.
>>
>> What you have defeats the purpose of reading back the register. The idea of
>> reading back was to avoid using any hardcoded reset state of the register.
>>
>> Also, your patch does nothing to the existing code writing to
>> AR803x_DEBUG_REG_5.
>> So you have two unneeded writes now. Does the following work for you (not
>> compiled or tested).
>>
> 
> The register setting would turn out to be 0x3D47 on our project boards and our signal measurement results show the patch (v2 version, https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/723461/)) could fix the voltage peak issue.
> The proposed solution is to follow the implementation in previous commits, which include the reserved bits settings in SerDes Test and System Mode Control register.

So what does the register setting turn out to be with my patch below ?

What are the "previous commits" you refer to ?

>> Thanks,
>> Sekhar
>>
>> ---8<---
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c b/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c index
>> b34cdd3d87dc..aff9eb3d18c6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/atheros.c
>> @@ -28,12 +28,16 @@ static int ar8021_config(struct phy_device *phydev)
>>
>>  static int ar8031_config(struct phy_device *phydev)  {
>> +	int regval;
>> +
>>  	if (phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_TXID ||
>>  	    phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_ID) {
>>  		phy_write(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_ADDR_REG,
>>  			  AR803x_DEBUG_REG_5);
>> +		regval = phy_read(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> +				  AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_DATA_REG);
>>  		phy_write(phydev, MDIO_DEVAD_NONE,
>> AR803x_PHY_DEBUG_DATA_REG,
>> -			  AR803x_RGMII_TX_CLK_DLY);
>> +			  regval | AR803x_RGMII_TX_CLK_DLY);
>>  	}
>>
>>  	if (phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII_RXID ||

Thanks,
Sekhar