[PATCH v2 0/3] Ethernet support for Raspberry Pi 4

Matthias Brugger mbrugger at suse.com
Wed Jan 22 13:06:30 CET 2020


Hi Corentin,

On 22/01/2020 11:04, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:20:44AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> This series adds Ethernet support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The SoC
>> includes a "Broadcom Genet v5 MAC" IP, connected as a proper platform
>> device (no USB anymore!). Patch 1 provides a driver for that. There does
>> not seem to be publicly available documentation, so this is based on the
>> Linux driver, but stripped down to just provide what U-Boot needs.
>> Patch 2 fixes up the RPi4 memory map to accommodate the MMIO area the
>> MAC lives in, while patch 3 enables it in the respective defconfigs.
>>
>> This version addresses the comments by the diligent reviewers and testers,
>> for a changelog see below.
>> To see the individual changes as patches, refer to [1].
>>
>> Please have a look and test it, I hope this helps to simplify
>> development, as you spare the SD card and its slot from heavy swapping.
>>
>> I dropped the Tested-by's, as there were changes in the code. Happy
>> to reapply them when people confirm that it still works for them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/apritzel/u-boot/commits/rpi4-eth-v2
>>
>> Changelog v1 ... v2:
>> - use native endianess functions when accessing MMIO registers
>> - use dev_* DM wrappers for accessing devicetree data
>> - round base and length for flush_dcache_range, plus a comment
>> - check and round length for invalidate_cache_range
>> - support RGMII_RXID PHY mode, to support mainline .dtb
>>
>> Amit Singh Tomar (3):
>>   net: Add support for Broadcom GENETv5 Ethernet controller
>>   rpi4: Update memory map to accommodate scb devices
>>   rpi4: Enable GENET Ethernet controller
>>
>>  arch/arm/mach-bcm283x/init.c |   6 +-
>>  configs/rpi_4_32b_defconfig  |   2 +
>>  configs/rpi_4_defconfig      |   2 +
>>  configs/rpi_arm64_defconfig  |   1 +
>>  drivers/net/Kconfig          |   7 +
>>  drivers/net/Makefile         |   1 +
>>  drivers/net/bcmgenet.c       | 722 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  7 files changed, 738 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/bcmgenet.c
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.14.5
>>
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have tested it again and grabbing DHCP and doing TFTP works.
> But I still fail to boot any kernel.
> 
> U-Boot 2020.01-00660-gec13baddca (Jan 21 2020 - 11:38:05 +0100)
> DRAM:  3.9 GiB
> RPI 4 Model B (0xc03111)
> MMC:   emmc2 at 7e340000: 0, mmcnr at 7e300000: 1
> Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   eth0: genet at 7d580000
> 
> dhcp
> 
> genet at 7d580000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete....... done
> BOOTP broadcast 1
> BOOTP broadcast 2
> BOOTP broadcast 3
> DHCP client bound to address 192.168.66.27 (1255 ms)
> 
> I use 0x80000 for kernel, 0x02700000 for RAMfs, 0x02400000 for DTB and booti 0x00080000 0x02700000 0x02400000 for starting kernel.
> Both mainline kernel and rpi kernel wont boot.
> 
> But this is unrelated to your serie.

Thanks for bringing this up. I only tested tftp and was able to run a grub
binary. But I realized that with the patches applied, I can't boot a kernel from
the SD card neither.

As I have grub2 booting the kernel I wonder if you have the same problems?

Regards,
Matthias

> Tested-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe at baylibre.com>
> 
> Thanks
> Regards
> 


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