Re: 4.5.0 on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found (regression from rc7)

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

Am 16.03.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Robin Murphy:
> On 16/03/16 11:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 16/03/16 11:19, Bert Lindner wrote:
>>> Hopefully this is the correct place and way to report this.

The main discussion is on netdev list actually, CC'ed.

>>> For the board sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2, there seems to be a problem
>>> with the eth0 PHY in mainline kernel 4.5.0 that developed since
>>> 4.5.0-rc7. Ethernet does not work, although eth0 is reported:
>>>
>>> root@lime2-079f:~# ip a l eth0
>>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
>>> default qlen 1000
>>>       link/ether 02:c9:05:02:07:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>>
>>>    Difference reported in dmesg:
>>>
>>> 4.5.0-rc7:
>>> [    9.379279] NET: Registered protocol family 10
>>> [   10.217148]  RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
>>> [   10.217195]  No MAC Management Counters available
>>> [   10.217627] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>>> [   15.206250] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up -
>>> 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
>>> [   15.206360] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
>>>
>>> 4.5.0:
>>> [    9.767125] NET: Registered protocol family 10
>>> [   10.357405] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found
>>> [   10.362382] eth0: Could not attach to PHY
>>> [   10.366557] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)
>>>
>>> .config is identical for both, also after make oldconfig, apart from
>>> comment with version number. DTB file is also identical between the two
>>> versions.
>>>
>>> Kernels are compiled on the board itself. /proc/version string:
>>> Linux version 4.5.0-rc7 (root@lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1
>>> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 11:57:25 UTC 2016
>>> Linux version 4.5.0 (root@lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro
>>> 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Tue Mar 15 11:39:01 UTC 2016
>>>
>>> Please let me know if more info is needed, if I should post complete
>>> .config, test compile with a particular config or patch, etc. Part of
>>> .config below.
>>
>> Can you please try reverting 88f8b1b ("stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No PHY found'
>> regression") and report whether or not this changes anything? This seems
>> to be the only stmac patch between -rc7 and release...
> 
> Sounds like the same thing as the giant ongoing discussion thread here:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/159007/focus=402830

v4 fixes for 4.5 are here:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598195/ (revert)
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598196/

v2 fixes for linux-next here:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598331/ (revert)
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598332/

Please let Peppe know whether they work for you guys.

Cheers,
Andreas

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