From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>,
Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>,
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH devicetree] arm64: dts: ls1028a: set up the real link speed for ENETC port 2
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:01:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210315060121.GH11246@dragon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210308130834.2994658-1-olteanv@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 03:08:34PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
>
> In NXP LS1028A there is a MAC-to-MAC internal link between enetc_port2
> and mscc_felix_port4. This link operates at 2.5Gbps and is described as
> such for the mscc_felix_port4 node.
>
> The reason for the discrepancy is a limitation in the PHY library
> support for fixed-link nodes. Due to the fact that the PHY library
> registers a software PHY which emulates the clause 22 register map, the
> drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c driver only supports speeds up to 1Gbps.
>
> The mscc_felix_port4 node is probed by DSA, which does not use the PHY
> library directly, but phylink, and phylink has a different representation
> for fixed-link nodes, one that does not have the limitation of not being
> able to represent speeds > 1Gbps.
>
> Since the enetc driver was converted to phylink too as of commit
> 71b77a7a27a3 ("enetc: Migrate to PHYLINK and PCS_LYNX"), the limitation
> has been practically lifted there too, and we can describe the real link
> speed in the device tree now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Applied, thanks.
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From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>,
Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>,
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH devicetree] arm64: dts: ls1028a: set up the real link speed for ENETC port 2
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:01:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210315060121.GH11246@dragon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210308130834.2994658-1-olteanv@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 03:08:34PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
>
> In NXP LS1028A there is a MAC-to-MAC internal link between enetc_port2
> and mscc_felix_port4. This link operates at 2.5Gbps and is described as
> such for the mscc_felix_port4 node.
>
> The reason for the discrepancy is a limitation in the PHY library
> support for fixed-link nodes. Due to the fact that the PHY library
> registers a software PHY which emulates the clause 22 register map, the
> drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c driver only supports speeds up to 1Gbps.
>
> The mscc_felix_port4 node is probed by DSA, which does not use the PHY
> library directly, but phylink, and phylink has a different representation
> for fixed-link nodes, one that does not have the limitation of not being
> able to represent speeds > 1Gbps.
>
> Since the enetc driver was converted to phylink too as of commit
> 71b77a7a27a3 ("enetc: Migrate to PHYLINK and PCS_LYNX"), the limitation
> has been practically lifted there too, and we can describe the real link
> speed in the device tree now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Applied, thanks.
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2021-03-08 13:08 [PATCH devicetree] arm64: dts: ls1028a: set up the real link speed for ENETC port 2 Vladimir Oltean
2021-03-08 13:08 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-03-15 6:01 ` Shawn Guo [this message]
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