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* [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] r8152: Add support for the RTL8159 10Gbit USB Ethernet chip
@ 2026-05-02  4:50 Birger Koblitz
  2026-05-02  4:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/3] r8152: Add support for 10Gbit Link Speeds and EEE Birger Koblitz
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From: Birger Koblitz @ 2026-05-02  4:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni
  Cc: linux-usb, netdev, linux-kernel, Chih Kai Hsu, Birger Koblitz,
	Andrew Lunn, Aleksander Jan Bajkowski

Add support for the RTL8159, which is a 10GBit USB-Ethernet adapter
chip in the RTL815x family of chips.

The RTL8159 re-uses the frame descriptor format and SRAM2 access introduced
with the RTL8157 as well as most of the setup and PM logic of the RTL8157.

The module was tested with a Lekuo DR59R11 USB-C 10GbE Ethernet Adapter:
[ 2502.906947] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 2502.927859] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=815a, bcdDevice=30.00
[ 2502.927867] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=7
[ 2502.927871] usb 2-1: Product: USB 10/100/1G/2.5G/5G/10G LAN
[ 2502.927873] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 2502.927875] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 000388C9B3B5XXXX
[ 2503.063745] r8152-cfgselector 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 2503.123876] r8152 2-1:1.0: Requesting firmware: rtl_nic/rtl8159-1.fw
[ 2503.126267] r8152 2-1:1.0: PHY firmware installed 0 to be loaded: 20
[ 2503.156265] r8152 2-1:1.0: load rtl8159-1 v1 2026/01/01 successfully
[ 2503.270729] r8152 2-1:1.0 eth0: v1.12.13
[ 2503.289349] r8152 2-1:1.0 enx88c9b3b5xxxx: renamed from eth0
[ 2507.777055] r8152 2-1:1.0 enx88c9b3b5xxxx: carrier on

The RTL8159 adapter was tested against an AQC107 PCIe-card supporting
10GBit/s and an RTL8157 5Gbit USB-Ethernet adapter supporting 5GBit/s for
performance, link speed and EEE negotiation. Using USB3.2 Gen 2 (20GBit) with
the RTL8159 USB adapter and running iperf3 against the AQC107 PCIe
card resulted in 8.96 Gbits/sec transfer speed.

The code is based on the out-of-tree r8152 driver published by Realtek under
the GPL.

The RTL8159 requires firmware for the PHY in order to achieve a 10GBit link
speed. Without firmware, only 5GBit were achieved. The firmware can be
extracted from the out-of-tree r8152 driver-code where it is stored in the
ram17 u8-array. Code is added to use the existing firmware upload mechanism
of the driver for the RTL8157/9 PHY firmware code. The firmware will be
submitted separately to linux-firmware.

Signed-off-by: Birger Koblitz <mail@birger-koblitz.de>
---
Changes in v3:
- Various references to RTL8157 in the commit description changed
  to RTL8159
- Fix incorrect use of OCP_EEE_ADV2 register for 10GBit 
- Fix various instances where a gate on RTL_VER_16 was not extended
  to RTL_VER_17, although RTL8159 needs the same code-path as RTL8157
- Explain use of 0x815a device-ID for RTL8159 in commit message
- Extend poll-timeout for backup-restore to 20ms
- Drop patch for IRQ mitigation 
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260429-rtl8159_net_next-v2-0-bab3cd4e4c66@birger-koblitz.de

Changes in v2:
- Correct formatting of comments
- Order case statement values correctly
- Add error message when backup-restore fails
- Correct commit message of support for firmware upload
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260428-rtl8159_net_next-v1-0-52d03927b46f@birger-koblitz.de

---
Birger Koblitz (3):
      r8152: Add support for 10Gbit Link Speeds and EEE
      r8152: Add support for the RTL8159 chip
      r8152: Add firmware upload capability for RTL8157/RTL8159

 drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 340 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 321 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 0f19519fdd22bc0f5429377da3a52327c5eee166
change-id: 20260427-rtl8159_net_next-4f778a614fa7

Best regards,
-- 
Birger Koblitz <mail@birger-koblitz.de>


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