Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: aspeed: add device tree for ASRock Rack ALTRAD8 BMC

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:40:15PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> On 9/15/25 18:37, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> > And does it have a PHY? On an MDIO bus? Unless i'm mistaken, you don't
> > describe the PHY, a phy-handle pointing to the PHY, and don't have
> > phy-mode = 'rgmii-id'.
> 
> I've been trying to figure this out. Yes, it's connected to a PHY (an
> RTL8211E).
> 
> At the moment it's being detected by OpenBMC as:
> 
> ftgmac100 1e680000.ethernet: Read MAC address 9c:6b:00:43:0b:bd from device
> tree
> RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet 1e680000.ethernet--1:00: attached PHY driver

So what is probably happening is that the ftgmac100 is creating an
MDIO bus. It does not matter if there is no node for it, it still
creates the bus, and the PHYs on the bus are found. You should be able
to see this in /sys/class/mdio_bus/. Then, since there is no
phy-handle, it uses phy_find_first() to find the first PHY on the bus,
and binds to that.

Now, it looks like all other aspeed-g5 boards also don't link to the
PHY. But the driver does seem to support adding an 'mdio' node within
the ethernet node, and listing the PHYs. Something like:

       mdio {
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <0>;

                ethphy0: ethernet-phy@0 {
                        reg = <0>;
                };
        };

And then you can add a phy-handle to point to it.

Then the question is, did Aspeed mess up the RGMII delays for g5? You
can try phy-mode = 'rgmii-id' and see if it works.

    Andrew