Original patch is from Jeff Haran <jharan@brocade.com> with my minor style
fixes. His comments follow:
The first problem was in the function that configures the PHY for
autonegotiation, genmii_setup_aneg(). The original code does a
read/modify/write of the autonegotiation advertizement register (reg 4),
followed by a read/modify/write of the control register (reg 0). While
the original code follows the proper procedure as per reading the IEEE
specs, what I found is that on at least one PHY model (National DP83843)
the read of the control register comes back with the soft reset bit set
(bit 15). Because of the read/modify/write operation, this causes the
write to write a 1 back to the reset bit, which initiates a software
reset of the PHY. This software reset causes the PHY to return to its
power up state which advertizes all modes of operation, thus negating
the write to the autoneg advertizement register. The modification is to
spin reading the control register until the soft reset bit is clear
before doing the modify/write.
The second problem was in the function that configures the PHY for
forced operation, genmii_setup_forced(). The original code initiates a
software reset operation via a write of a 1 to bit 15 of the control
register (reg 0), but then proceeds to do a second write to that same
register without waiting until that reset bit is cleared by the PHY
itself (which according to the IEEE specs indicates that the PHY reset
is complete). This is a violation of how one is supposed to use this
software reset feature of these PHYs and I believe was the cause of
mysterious, difficult to reproduce link failures that we've observed on
some of our systems that use this driver. The fix is to modify the
function so that it spins waiting for the reset bit to clear after doing
the soft reset and before doing the subsequent write.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Haran <jharan@brocade.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
I have a system with AMCC PowerPC 405EP and PHY Intel LXT971A. Linux
2.6.18.3 is not able to detect the PHY ID correctly. The PHY ID
detected is 0, but should be 0x1d.
This is because phy_read() (__emac_mdio_read() resp.) from
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c might return -ETIMEDOUT or
-EREMOTEIO on error. This is ignored inside the
int mii_phy_probe(struct mii_phy *phy, int address)
from drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c
as the return value is assigned to an u32 variable.
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* MII registers must override strap pins
* disable "echo" mode to make 10/HDX work (Franz Sirl)
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
This patch replaces current PowerPC 4xx EMAC driver with
new, re-written from the scratch version. This patch is quite big
(~234K) because there is virtualy 0% of common code between old and
new version.
New driver uses NAPI, it solves stability problems under heavy packet
load and low memory, corrects chip register access and fixes numerous
small bugs I don't even remember now.
This patch has been tested on all supported in 2.6 PPC 4xx boards.
It's been used in production for almost a year now on custom
4xx hardware. PPC32 specific parts are already upstream.
Patch was acked by the current EMAC driver maintainer (Matt Porter). I
will be maintaining this new version.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
--
Kconfig | 72
ibm_emac/Makefile | 13
ibm_emac/ibm_emac.h | 418 +++--
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c | 3414 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.h | 313 ++--
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_debug.c | 377 ++---
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_debug.h | 63
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_mal.c | 674 +++++----
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_mal.h | 336 +++-
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c | 335 ++--
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.h | 105 -
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_rgmii.c | 201 ++
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_rgmii.h | 68
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_tah.c | 111 +
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_tah.h | 96 -
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_zmii.c | 255 +++
ibm_emac/ibm_emac_zmii.h | 114 -
17 files changed, 4114 insertions(+), 2851 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Eugene Surovegin