Re: [patch 2/2] Try to fix mvneta when compiled as module

Thomas Petazzoni [off-list ref] writes:

Dear Arnaud Patard (Rtp),

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:06:46 +0200, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote:

quoted

This patch sets the "sgmii serdes configuration" register to a magical value
found in:
https://github.com/yellowback/ubuntu-precise-armadaxp/blob/master/arch/arm/mach-armadaxp/armada_xp_family/ctrlEnv/mvCtrlEnvLib.c

According to the Armada XP functional datasheet, this magical value
0xCC7 is the one to be used to configure a SERDES interface to use the
"Protocol Generation Setting" SGMII. There are other magical values for
DRSGMII, SQGMII, SATA Gen I and SATA Gen II. So you could really do:

#define    MVNETA_SGMII_SERDES_PROTO	0xcc7

ok.

quoted

With this change, the interrupts are working/generated and ethernet is
working.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <redacted>

Index: linux-next/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
===================================================================

--- linux-next.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c	2013-06-20 23:39:37.485391949 +0200
+++ linux-next/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c	2013-06-20 23:39:37.481391949 +0200

@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@
 #define      MVNETA_TX_IN_PRGRS                  BIT(1)
 #define      MVNETA_TX_FIFO_EMPTY                BIT(8)
 #define MVNETA_RX_MIN_FRAME_SIZE                 0x247c
+#define MVETH_SGMII_SERDES_CFG			 0x24A0
+#define MVETH_SGMII_SERDES_STAT			 0x24A4

You are not using this last define in your patch. Please also use
MVNETA_ prefix for those defines, like all the other ones.

However, there is one thing that I am not understanding completely. The
C code you pointed above seems to do the following:

	pRegAddr[3] = SGMII_SERDES_CFG_REG(sgmiiPort);
	pRegAddr[4] = SGMII_SERDES_STAT_REG(sgmiiPort);
	[..]
	pRegVal[3] = (pSerdesInfo->busSpeed & (1 << serdesLineNum)) != 0 ? 0x1547 : 0xCC7;
	pRegVal[4] = 0x7;

So:

 1) In some conditions, it will use the 0x1547 value in some cases, and
    0xCC7 in the other ones. And interestingly, the datasheet doesn't
    mention what the 0x1547 magical value is.

The problem I got was that I didn't understand how to 'translate' the
(1 << serdesLineNum) part, so I removed it. Moreover, dumping the
registers when everything built-in (aka 'working'), I read a value
corresponding to the 0xcc7 case but not the other one so it seemed to me
it was safer to not use the 0x1547 case.

 2) It writes 0x7 to the SGMII_SERDES_STAT_REG register, but the
    datasheet mentions this register as a read-only register.

weird. Can be remains of code for old tape outs or something wrong on
the doc, 'fixed' in some pdf about erratas.

Thanks,
Arnaud