Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: broadcom: set features explicitly for BCM54616S

[Tao Ren <taoren@fb.com>]

On 7/29/19 11:00 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 30.07.2019 07:05, Tao Ren wrote:
>> On 7/29/19 8:35 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 05:25:32PM -0700, Tao Ren wrote:
>>>> BCM54616S feature "PHY_GBIT_FEATURES" was removed by commit dcdecdcfe1fc
>>>> ("net: phy: switch drivers to use dynamic feature detection"). As dynamic
>>>> feature detection doesn't work when BCM54616S is working in RGMII-Fiber
>>>> mode (different sets of MII Control/Status registers being used), let's
>>>> set "PHY_GBIT_FEATURES" for BCM54616S explicitly.
>>>
>>> Hi Tao
>>>
>>> What exactly does it get wrong?
>>>
>>>      Thanks
>>> 	Andrew
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> BCM54616S is set to RGMII-Fiber (1000Base-X) mode on my platform, and none of the features (1000BaseT/100BaseT/10BaseT) can be detected by genphy_read_abilities(), because the PHY only reports 1000BaseX_Full|Half ability in this mode.
>>
> Are you going to use the PHY in copper or fibre mode?
> In case you use fibre mode, why do you need the copper modes set as supported?
> Or does the PHY just start in fibre mode and you want to switch it to copper mode?

Hi Heiner,

The phy starts in fiber mode and that's the mode I want.
My observation is: phydev->link is always 0 (Link status bit is never set in MII_BMSR) by using dynamic ability detection on my machine. I checked phydev->supported and it's set to "AutoNeg | TP | MII | Pause | Asym_Pause" by dynamic ability detection. Is it normal/expected? Or maybe the fix should go to different places? Thank you for your help.


Thanks,

Tao