[U-Boot] [PATCH] net/designware: revert MAC-address setup on init

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:26:21AM -0500, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Alexey Brodkin
> <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:
> > Hi Tom, Joe,
> >
> > On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 22:22 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> >> Hi Alexey,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Alexey Brodkin
> >> <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com> wrote:
> >> > http://git.denx.de/?p=u
> >> > -boot.git;a=patch;h=f566c9949fbdce2e09a900c5343ca9986e5ba360
> >> > broke DW GMAC operation if !DM_ETH because eth_write_hwaddr()
> >> > doesn't
> >> > exist if !DM_NET.
> >> >
> >> > As for DM_ETH case I'm still not sure if existing implementation
> >> > will
> >> > fly.
> >> >
> >> > The point is as it is said in the comment on "soft reset" that is
> >> > triggered with setting DMAMAC_SRST in "busmode" register HW address
> >> > gets
> >> > reset as well. And we inevitably need to set HW address again.
> >> >
> >> > So probably better solution is to move mentioned "soft-reset" from
> >> > "init" (that is used on start of any network activity) to
> >> > "initialize"
> >> > (which is only executed once in "board_r" sequence). But that's a
> >> > bit of
> >> > a different story and for now let's just get DW GMAC functional
> >> > again.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
> >> > Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
> >> > Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
> >> > Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  drivers/net/designware.c | 4 ++++
> >> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/net/designware.c b/drivers/net/designware.c
> >> > index ae51cf3..07281a6 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/net/designware.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/net/designware.c
> >> > @@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ static int _dw_eth_init(struct dw_eth_dev
> >> > *priv, u8 *enetaddr)
> >> >                 mdelay(100);
> >> >         };
> >> >
> >> > +       /* Soft reset above clears HW address registers.
> >> > +        * So we have to set it here once again */
> >> > +       _dw_write_hwaddr(priv, enetaddr);
> >> > +
> >> >         rx_descs_init(priv);
> >> >         tx_descs_init(priv);
> >> >
> >> > --
> >>
> >> There is already a patch submitted. Please check
> >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/484214/
> >
> > Any chance for mentioned patch "net: designware: Program MAC address to
> > hardware after soft reset" to be applied?
> >
> > This really fixes GMAC operation and it would be nice to have this fix
> > in upcoming release.
> 
> I think that sounds appropriate. Tom?

Yes.  Of the handful of recent (in my mind anyhow) net patches, are you
going to do a PR for them or should I just grab things?

-- 
Tom
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