Re: Aquantia PHY in OCSGMII mode?

Alexander Wilhelm
2025-08-01T12:06:35Z

Am Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 12:58:23PM +0100 schrieb Russell King (Oracle):
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Alexander Wilhelm wrote:
> > Am Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 02:01:06PM +0300 schrieb Vladimir Oltean:
> > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:26:43PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > > and this works. So... we could actually reconfigure the PHY independent
> > > > of what was programmed into the firmware.
> > >
> > > It does work indeed, the trouble will be adding this code to the common
> > > mainline kernel driver and then watching various boards break after their
> > > known-good firmware provisioning was overwritten, from a source of unknown
> > > applicability to their system.
> >
> > You're right. I've now selected a firmware that uses a different provisioning
> > table, which already configures the PHY for 2500BASE-X with Flow Control.
> > According to the documentation, it should support all modes: 10M, 100M, 1G, and
> > 2.5G.
> >
> > It seems the issue lies with the MAC, as it doesn't appear to handle the
> > configured PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_2500BASEX correctly. I'm currently investigating
> > this further.
>
> Which MAC driver, and is it using phylink?

If I understand it correclty, then yes. It is an Freescale FMAN driver that is
called through phylink callbacks like the following:

static const struct phylink_mac_ops memac_mac_ops = {
.validate = memac_validate,
.mac_select_pcs = memac_select_pcs,
.mac_prepare = memac_prepare,
.mac_config = memac_mac_config,
.mac_link_up = memac_link_up,
.mac_link_down = memac_link_down,
};

Best regards
Alexander Wilhelm