RE: About the Davicom PHY in drivers/net/phy in Linux kernel

["Joseph Chang" <joseph_chang@mail.davicom.com.tw>]

Dear Mac Paul,

For you are using DAVICOM PHY in this case.

Our suggestion, please check below red comment text:

 * == > Would you tell us your:
	CPU = ?
	Linux Kernel version= ?
      I will like to download the same source code from LXR.
      And can check more detail for you. 

+static int dm9161_config_aneg(struct phy_device *phydev) {
+	int err;
+
+	/* Isolate the PHY */
     err = 0;
+	//err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ISOLATE);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Configure the new settings */
+	err = genphy_config_aneg(phydev);
    err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ANENABLE | 0x200 );
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int dm9161_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev) {
+	int err;
+
+	/* Isolate the PHY */
     err = 0;
+	//err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ISOLATE);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Do not bypass the scrambler/descrambler */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_DM9161_SCR, MII_DM9161_SCR_INIT);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Clear 10BTCSR to default */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_DM9161_10BTCSR, MII_DM9161_10BTCSR_INIT);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Reconnect the PHY, and enable Autonegotiation */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ANENABLE | 0x200 );
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	return 0;

Best Regards,
Joseph CHANG 
System Application Engineering Division 
Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: macpaul@andestech.com [mailto:macpaul@andestech.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:34 PM
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: afleming@freescale.com; jeff@garzik.org; f.rodo@til-technologies.fr; joseph_chang@mail.davicom.com.tw
Subject: About the Davicom PHY in drivers/net/phy in Linux kernel

Hi all,

According to the source code of Davicom PHY in Linux,
We should do "ISOLATE" command to PHY before setting "auto negotiation" or "MII/RMII".

However, I've found that with Faraday's MAC/GMAC controller (ftmac100/ftgmac100), setting ISOLATE for multiple PHY configuration will lead MDC become stop because the flaw inside the MAC controller. Faraday's MAC/GMAC will leverage the TX_CLK as the MDC source. When FTMAC100 send "ISOLATE" to Davicom's PHY, the TX_CLK send out from PHY will be stopped, then MDC will also become stop.

However, this mail wasn't meant to discuss about the design flaw inside the IC.

We've done two test to the following codes.

1st: if we just skip the " BMCR_ISOLATE" setting command, we will get PHY sometimes become unstable, for example, could not do DHCP request successfully.

2nd: if we replace "BMCR_ISOLATE" to "BMCR_RESET", we could get rid of the problem occurred by Faraday GMAC. And the PHY works well still.

I've found that in some other PHY implementation, for example, in "marvell.c", there are seems no ISOLATE commands. There are only RESET commands.
If we could replace BMCR_ISOLATE to BMCR_RESET in current kernel source, will there be any unpredictable behavior happened?

Please give us suggestion according to your experiences.
Thanks a lot.

+static int dm9161_config_aneg(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	/* Isolate the PHY */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ISOLATE);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Configure the new settings */
+	err = genphy_config_aneg(phydev);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int dm9161_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	/* Isolate the PHY */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ISOLATE);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Do not bypass the scrambler/descrambler */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_DM9161_SCR, MII_DM9161_SCR_INIT);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Clear 10BTCSR to default */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_DM9161_10BTCSR, MII_DM9161_10BTCSR_INIT);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Reconnect the PHY, and enable Autonegotiation */
+	err = phy_write(phydev, MII_BMCR, BMCR_ANENABLE);
+
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	return 0;

Best regards,
Macpaul Lin

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