Re: [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: phy: mscc: add support for VSC8574 PHY

Quentin Schulz
2018-10-04T09:45:51Z

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Hi Florian,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:26:06PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 09/14/2018 02:44 AM, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> > The VSC8574 PHY is a 4-ports PHY that is 10/100/1000BASE-T, 100BASE-FX,
> > 1000BASE-X and triple-speed copper SFP capable, can communicate with
> > the MAC via SGMII, QSGMII or 1000BASE-X, supports WOL, downshifting and
> > can set the blinking pattern of each of its 4 LEDs, supports SyncE as
> > well as HP Auto-MDIX detection.
> >
> > This adds support for 10/100/1000BASE-T, SGMII/QSGMII link with the MAC,
> > WOL, downshifting, HP Auto-MDIX detection and blinking pattern for its 4
> > LEDs.
> >
> > The VSC8574 has also an internal Intel 8051 microcontroller whose
> > firmware needs to be patched when the PHY is reset. If the 8051's
> > firmware has the expected CRC, its patching can be skipped. The
> > microcontroller can be accessed from any port of the PHY, though the CRC
> > function can only be done through the PHY that is the base PHY of the
> > package (internal address 0) due to a limitation of the firmware.
> >
> > The GPIO register bank is a set of registers that are common to all PHYs
> > in the package. So any modification in any register of this bank affects
> > all PHYs of the package.
> >
> > If the PHYs haven't been reset before booting the Linux kernel and were
> > configured to use interrupts for e.g. link status updates, it is
> > required to clear the interrupts mask register of all PHYs before being
> > able to use interrupts with any PHY. The first PHY of the package that
> > will be init will take care of clearing all PHYs interrupts mask
> > registers. Thus, we need to keep track of the init sequence in the
> > package, if it's already been done or if it's to be done.
> >
> > Most of the init sequence of a PHY of the package is common to all PHYs
> > in the package, thus we use the SMI broadcast feature which enables us
> > to propagate a write in one register of one PHY to all PHYs in the
> > package.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>
> > ---
>
> [snip]
>
> > + reg = __mdiobus_read(bus, phy, MSCC_PHY_TEST_PAGE_8);
> > + reg |= 0x8000;
>
> Having a define would be nice here? This looks like a write enable?
>

I had asked for the meaning of this bit in this register before but we
couldn't find documentation for it. I'll ask again and let you know.

> > + __mdiobus_write(bus, phy, MSCC_PHY_TEST_PAGE_8, reg);
> > +
> > + __mdiobus_write(bus, phy, MSCC_EXT_PAGE_ACCESS, MSCC_PHY_PAGE_TR);
> > +
> > + vsc8584_csr_write(bus, phy, 0x8fae, 0x000401bd);
>
> Just make this an array of address + value pairs and blast it to the
> PHY, having them be inlined here is both error prone and does not scale
> well at all.

Right. Turned out it was a great idea as the below values were
mistakenly adding 0x8000 to the register (which was fine since in
vsc8584_csr_write does a 0x8000 | reg).

Thanks,
Quentin

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