Re: sun7i-dwmac: link detection failure with 1000Mbit parters

[Priit Laes <plaes@plaes.org>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:14:04PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 02:04:22PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 08:21:17PM +0000, Priit Laes wrote:
> > > Heya!
> > > 
> > > I have noticed that with sun7i-dwmac driver (OLinuxino Lime2 eMMC), link
> > > detection fails consistently with certain 1000Mbit partners (for example Huawei
> > > B525s-23a 4g modem ethernet outputs and RTL8153-based USB3.0 ethernet dongle),
> > > but the same hardware works properly with certain other link partners (100Mbit GL AR150
> > > for example).
> > 
> > Hi Pritt
> > 
> > What PHY is used? And what happens if you use the specific PHY driver,
> > not the generic PHY driver?
> 
> Schematics of the board are here:
> 
> https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/blob/master/HARDWARE/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/1.%20Latest%20hardware%20revision/A20-OLinuXino-Lime2_Rev_K2_COLOR.pdf
> 
> So it has a KSZ9031. The micrel driver supports that device. And there
> is a patch which might be relevant:
> 
> commit 3aed3e2a143c9619f4c8d0a3b8fe74d7d3d79c93
> Author: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>
...
> Please test using the Micrel PHY driver and see if that solves your
> problem.

Thanks, CONFIG_MICREL_PHY=y helped!

> 
> 	Andrew