[PATCH] net: marvell: mvgbe: Set PHY page 0 before phy_connect

Tony Dinh mibodhi at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 03:45:04 CEST 2022


Hi Stefan,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 1:47 PM Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 3:29 AM Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > On 4/12/22 22:18, Tony Dinh wrote:
> > > For most Kirkwood boards, the PHY page is already set to page 0
> > > (in register 22) before phy_connect is invoked. But some board like
> > > the Zyxel NSA310S (which uses the network chip MV88E1318S), the PHY page
> > > is not set to page 0. There seems to be some bad data remained in
> > > register 22 when the uclass MVGBE about to invoke phy_connect().
> > >
> > > This patch enables the uclass MVGBE to always set the PHY page to 0
> > > before phy_connect.
> > >
> > > For reference, please see this discussion:
> > > [RFC PATCH v2] arm: kirkwood: nsa310s: Use Marvell uclass mvgbe
> > > and PHY driver for DM Ethernet.
> > > https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-April/480946.html
> >
> > I don't think that this is the correct approach. We should not set
> > the *Marvell* PHY page address in this MAC driver IMHO. This driver
> > should not have any PHY specific changes. This should be done in the
> > PHY driver instead. Some PHY driver or board specific code seems to be
> > responsible for setting a non-zero PHY page and not resetting it back
> > to zero. A better solution would be to locate this code path and add
> > this page reset to 0 there.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> My initial thought was similar to yours, in that if we can do this in
> the Marvell PHY driver, it would be the best. However, the Marvell PHY
> driver start() and config() are invoked too late in the code calling
> sequence. The phy_connect() would fail if the page is not 0. And since
> we have the mmi_phy_write() call to set the "Set phy address of the
> port" (see code excerpt below), I thought it is also appropriate to
> set the page to 0 here.
>
> I realized it is an assumption to say because this MVGBE uclass is
> only used for the Marvell Alaska chip in the Kirkwood boards, the
> register 22 is the correct one.
>
> So perhaps we need a suggestion from the maintainers (to: cc: on this
> email) where it would be the best place to do this. In the old ad-hoc
> code, this setting to page 0 was done in the board file reset_phy(),
> which is invoked early on by board_r.

To add more info to this discussion, below is the code path for this
mvgbe uclass. As you can see in the boot log below, in DM Ethernet for
Kirkwood boards, no board code is involved at all. The mvgbe uclass is
all that we have executed before the phy_connect(). And the Marvell
PHY driver code is executed very late, after the PHY has been
connected. So I think whatever we do probably should be in this
uclass.

There is a struct in drivers/net/mvgbe.h that seems to be where the
Page Select register could be. I'm still trying to decipher these
struct members and what they are, and whether it is possible to set
the register to 0. Very hard to understand this code without any
documentation.

struct mvgbe_registers {
        u32 phyadr;
        u32 smi;
        u32 euda;
        u32 eudid;
<snip>

Thanks,
Tony

============================================

Begin boot log (phy_connect failed because register 22 is non 0):

U-Boot 2022.04-00569-gca51a8dc04-dirty (Apr 20 2022 - 15:01:37 -0700)
ZyXEL NSA310S/320S 1/2-Bay Power Media Server

SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
DRAM:  256 MiB
Core:  7 devices, 5 uclasses, devicetree: separate
NAND:  128 MiB
Loading Environment from NAND... OK
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   mvgbe_of_to_plat called
mvgbe_of_to_plat phy-mode 7
mvgbe_of_to_plat phy addr 1
mvgbe_probe called
eth0: ethernet-controller at 72000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
NSA310s> ping 192.168.0.224
mvgbe_start UCLASS_ETH  mvgbe
mvgbe_start PHY addr 1
__mvgbe_init
__mvgbe_init MVGBE_PGADR_REG at start  value = 0x11
__mvgbe_init successful, returning 0
__mvgbe_init       and MVGBE_PGADR_REG at end value = 0x11
__mvgbe_phy_init phy name = ethernet-controller at 72000
__mvgbe_phy_init phyid = 1
__mvgbe_phy_init phy_interface = rgmii
__mvgbe_phy_init MVGBE_PGADR_REG current value = 0x11
phy.c phy_connect:
phy.c phy_find_by_mask 2
phy.c get_phy_device_by_mask: mask: 0x2
create_phy_by_mask phy mask 0x2
create_phy_by_mask phy mask 0x2
create_phy_by_mask phy mask 0x2
create_phy_by_mask phy mask 0x2
create_phy_by_mask phy mask 0x2
create_phy_by_mask phy mask 0x2
phy.c get_phy_device_by_mask: not found and could not create PHY for
ethernet-controller at 72000
Could not get PHY for ethernet-controller at 72000: addr 1
phy_connect failed
ping failed; host 192.168.0.224 is not alive

End log
=============


> Thanks,
> Tony
>
> =================
>
> drivers/net/mvgbe.c
>
> static struct phy_device *__mvgbe_phy_init(struct udevice *dev,
>                                            struct mii_dev *bus,
>                                            phy_interface_t phy_interface,
>                                            int phyid)
> #else
> static struct phy_device *__mvgbe_phy_init(struct eth_device *dev,
>                                            struct mii_dev *bus,
>                                            phy_interface_t phy_interface,
>                                            int phyid)
> #endif
> {
>         struct phy_device *phydev;
>
>         /* Set phy address of the port */
>         miiphy_write(dev->name, MV_PHY_ADR_REQUEST, MV_PHY_ADR_REQUEST,
>                      phyid);
>
>         /* Make sure the selected PHY page is 0 before connecting */
>         miiphy_write(dev->name, phyid, MVGBE_PGADR_REG, 0);
>
>         phydev = phy_connect(bus, phyid, dev, phy_interface);
>         if (!phydev) {
>                 printf("phy_connect failed\n");
>                 return NULL;
>         }
>
>         phy_config(phydev);
>         phy_startup(phydev);
>
>         return phydev;
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_PHYLIB || CONFIG_DM_ETH */
>



>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan
> >
> > > This patch has been tested with the following Kirkwood boards:
> > >
> > > NSA310S (88F6702, network chip MV88E1318S)
> > > Sheevaplug (88F6281, network chip MV88E1318)
> > > Pogo V4 (88F6192, network chip 88E1116R)
> > > GF Home(88F6281, network chip 88E1116R)
> > > Dreamplug (88F6281, network chip MV88E1318)
> > > Dell Kace M300 (88F6282, network chip MV88E1318) - out of tree u-boot
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >   drivers/net/mvgbe.c | 4 ++++
> > >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/mvgbe.c b/drivers/net/mvgbe.c
> > > index 954bf86121..d2db1e584a 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/mvgbe.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/mvgbe.c
> > > @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
> > >
> > >   #define MV_PHY_ADR_REQUEST 0xee
> > >   #define MVGBE_SMI_REG (((struct mvgbe_registers *)MVGBE0_BASE)->smi)
> > > +#define MVGBE_PGADR_REG      22
> > >
> > >   #if defined(CONFIG_PHYLIB) || defined(CONFIG_MII) || defined(CONFIG_CMD_MII)
> > >   static int smi_wait_ready(struct mvgbe_device *dmvgbe)
> > > @@ -745,6 +746,9 @@ static struct phy_device *__mvgbe_phy_init(struct eth_device *dev,
> > >       miiphy_write(dev->name, MV_PHY_ADR_REQUEST, MV_PHY_ADR_REQUEST,
> > >                    phyid);
> > >
> > > +     /* Make sure the selected PHY page is 0 before connecting */
> > > +     miiphy_write(dev->name, phyid, MVGBE_PGADR_REG, 0);
> > > +
> > >       phydev = phy_connect(bus, phyid, dev, phy_interface);
> > >       if (!phydev) {
> > >               printf("phy_connect failed\n");
> >
> > Viele Grüße,
> > Stefan Roese
> >
> > --
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