Re: Unable to TX data on VSC8531

[Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>]

The 05/02/2023 13:16, Ron Eggler wrote:
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> Hi Horatiu,
> 
> On 2023-05-02 12:11 a.m., Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> > The 05/01/2023 13:34, Ron Eggler wrote:
> > 
> > [snip greetings]
> > 
> > > > I've posted here previously about the bring up of two network interfaces
> > > > on an embedded platform that is using two the Microsemi VSC8531 PHYs.
> > > > (previous thread: issues to bring up two VSC8531 PHYs, Thanks to Heiner
> > > > Kallweit & Andrew Lunn).
> > > > I'm able to seemingly fully access & operate the network interfaces
> > > > through ifconfig (and the ip commands) and I set the ip address to match
> > > > my /24 network. However, while it looks like I can receive & see traffic
> > > > on the line with tcpdump, it appears like none of my frames can go out
> > > > in TX direction and hence entries in my arp table mostly remain
> > > > incomplete (and if there actually happens to be a complete entry,
> > > > sending anything to it doesn't seem to work and the TX counters in
> > > > ifconfig stay at 0. How can I further troubleshoot this? I have set the
> > > > phy-mode to rgmii-id in the device tree and have experimented with all
> > > > the TX_CLK delay register settings in the PHY but have failed to make
> > > > any progress.
> > > > Some of the VSC phys have this COMA mode, and then you need to pull
> > > > down a GPIO to take it out of this mode. I looked a little bit but I
> > > > didn't find anything like this for VSC8531 but maybe you can double
> > > > check this. But in that case both the RX and TX will not work.
> > > > Are there any errors seen in the registers 16 (0x10) or register 17
> > > > (0x11)?
> > > Good point rewgarding the COMA mode, I have not found anything like it.
> > > The RGMII connectivity should be pretty straight forward per the
> > > datasheet, TX0-TX4, TX_CLK, TX_CTL, RXD0-RXD4, RX_CLK & RX_CTL.
> > > Not sure if you've seen this in the subthread that is  ongoing with
> > > Andrew Lunn but as part of it, I did invoke the mii-tool and got a
> > > pretty printout of the PHY registers, see below:
> > > 
> > > # mii-tool -vv eth0
> > > Using SIOCGMIIPHY=0x8947
> > > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> > >    registers for MII PHY 0:
> > >      1040 796d 0007 0572 01e1 45e1 0005 2801
> > >      0000 0300 4000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3000
> > >      9000 0000 0008 0000 0000 0000 3201 1000
> > >      0000 a020 0000 0000 802d 0021 0400 0000
> > Unfortunetly, I can't see anything obvious wrong with the registers.
> > 
> > >    product info: vendor 00:01:c1, model 23 rev 2
> > >    basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
> > >    basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
> > >    capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> > > 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> > >    advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> > Are you expecting to run at 100Mbit?
> that's right and expected.
> > >    link partner: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> > > 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
> > > 
> > > Alternartively, the registers can be read with phytool also:
> > > 
> > > # phytool read eth0/0/0x10
> > > 0x9000
> > > # phytool read eth0/0/0x11
> > > 0000
> > Another thing that you can try, is to put a probe and see if you
> > actually see the TXCLK? And if I understand correctly that should be at
> > 25MHz (because the link speed is 100Mbit).
> Ah, that's a problem:
> I did probe and the clock I probe is at 2.5MHz, not 25.

That is one step foward :)

> 
> Just to try out, I also temporarily connected it to 1000baseT:
> 
> # mii-tool -vv eth0
> Using SIOCGMIIPHY=0x8947
> eth0: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok
>   registers for MII PHY 0:
>     1040 796d 0007 0572 01e1 c1e1 000d 2001
>     4d47 0300 3800 0000 0000 0000 0000 3000
>     0000 9000 0008 0000 0000 0000 3201 1000
>     0000 a020 a000 0000 a035 0021 0400 0000
>   product info: vendor 00:01:c1, model 23 rev 2
>   basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
>   basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
>   capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
>   advertising:  1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD
> 10baseT-HD
>   link partner: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD
> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> 
> and even here, the TX_CLK remained at 2.5MHz (mind the scope I'm using
> only goes up to 70MHz but I surely would not expect it to show me a
> clear clock at 2.5MHz for a faster frequency).

Then in theory if you force the speed to be 10Mbit, will it work?

> 
> It appears to be "stuck" at 10MBit speed. Also it is at 2.5V instead of
> 1.8V.
> 
> Would I be able to configure this through device tree setting?

I am not sure, if this is possible, shouldn't be a configuration option
on the MAC side? As if I understand correctly, the MAC should generate
the TX_CLK in RGMII regardless of the speed.
I would prefer to leave this to people who have more knowledge then me
to answer to this.

> 
> Thanks Horatiu,
> 
> this definitely showed clearly where there is a problem.
> 
> --
> 
> Ron
> 

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/Horatiu