Re: [RFC net-next 6/8] net: phylink: Configure MAC/PCS when link is up without PHY

Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-01-27T14:08:46Z

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 03:00:38PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Yes, I realise that, but it comes with the expense of potentially
> > breaking mvneta and mvpp2, where the settings are automatically
> > passed between the PCS and MAC in hardware. I also believe DSA
> > works around this, and I need to look at that.
>
> Hi Russell
>
> The mv88e6xxx driver has code for when SGMII is used. It transfers the
> negotiated speed from the PCS to the MAC.
>
> But it recently turned out something like this is also needed for
> other link modes involving the SERDES. It used to work, i think
> because Phylink would initially configure the MAC approximately right,
> or the mv88e6xxx driver was looking at phylink state it should not.
> But it no longer works.

Can you give a hint which platform this is and how to reproduce it
please?

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