Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-12-01 Thread Kumar Gala

On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Peter Tyser wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:13 -0700, Li Yang-R58472 wrote:
>>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full
>>> duplex in SGMII mode"
>>> 
>>> Hi Zhao,
>>> 
>>>> In message <1289986984-2314-1-git-send-email-b26...@freescale.com> you
>>> wrote:
>>>>> On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
>>>>> VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
>>>>> for SGMII mode cause link problems.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.
>>> 
>>> Based on my company's discussions with Freescale and Freescale's appnotes
>>> I believe that the current implementation is correct.  I make reference to
>>> some of this in the original patch:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/-U-Boot---PATCH--tsec:-Force-TBI-PHY-to-1000Mbps-
>>> full-duplex-in-SGMII-mode-td26188785.html
>>> 
>>> We use Broadcom PHYs on our boards, which likely has something to do with
>>> the discrepancies between the P2020DS/MPC8572DS vs the
>>> XPedite5370/XPedite5500.  Unless you have additional information that
>>> shows that in-band SGMII auto-negotiation does work per the spec I'd
>>> prefer to keep the current tsec.c code and add CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
>>> workarounds to the P2020DS (already done in commit
>>> 90b5bf211b85eee10c34cbeb907ce381142b7c99?) and MPC8572DS.
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> From the App Note you mentioned, I didn't find that the auto-negotiation 
>> can't be used.
> 
> My understanding is that the SGMII link is always at 1000Mbps speed -
> see figure 1 from the app note.  Additionally look at figure 3.  My
> understand from it, and the app note's text is that SGMII
> auto-negotiation doesn't really occur - its just passing the PHY-side
> auto-negotiation results to the Freescale MAC, which software then
> configures.  I'm not sure what the purpose of the "SGMII
> auto-negotiation" is - its not really auto-negotiating and the same
> information can be read from the PHY via its MDIO interface, which is
> what is happening on X-ES boards currently.
> 
> We were told by a Freescale FAE that SGMII auto-negotiation wasn't
> supported, although 1000 BASE-X auto-negotation was (which mirrored our
> test results).  I can dig up the old emails tomorrow at the office with
> the details.
> 
>> Actually we need the auto-negotiation enabled for almost all Freescale 
>> reference boards such as P2020DS, MPC8572DS and P1/P2 RDB boards.  If we 
>> disable the auto-negotiation on these boards, the SGMII link won't work.  So 
>> I guess it might be more common to use auto-negotiation, and a fixed 1000M 
>> link is more like a special case.  I'm not sure what's the recommended way 
>> for SGMII PHY interconnect though.
> 
> And auto-negotation doesn't work on X-ES hardware which all use Broadcom
> PHYs - which is why I made the original change after consulting a
> Freescale FAE.  Its not a huge deal to me either way as long as the
> XPedite5370 and XPedite5500 continue to not use SGMII auto-negotiation.
> Can someone at Freescale provide a definitive answer about what the
> proper SGMII auto-negotiation scheme is?  And has anyone used it
> successfully or unsuccessfully with a non-Vitesse PHY?

So I believe we do in-band autoneg, it just doesn't convey all the way back as 
you'd expect.

We've also see Marvell PHYs work in SGMII mode.

I'm going to go back to the way it was and explicitly set 
CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS in xpedite537x.h & xpedite550x.h

- k
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Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Tyser
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:13 -0700, Li Yang-R58472 wrote:
> >Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full
> >duplex in SGMII mode"
> >
> >Hi Zhao,
> >
> >> In message <1289986984-2314-1-git-send-email-b26...@freescale.com> you
> >wrote:
> >> > On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
> >> > VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
> >> > for SGMII mode cause link problems.
> >> >
> >> > Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.
> >
> >Based on my company's discussions with Freescale and Freescale's appnotes
> >I believe that the current implementation is correct.  I make reference to
> >some of this in the original patch:
> >http://old.nabble.com/-U-Boot---PATCH--tsec:-Force-TBI-PHY-to-1000Mbps-
> >full-duplex-in-SGMII-mode-td26188785.html
> >
> >We use Broadcom PHYs on our boards, which likely has something to do with
> >the discrepancies between the P2020DS/MPC8572DS vs the
> >XPedite5370/XPedite5500.  Unless you have additional information that
> >shows that in-band SGMII auto-negotiation does work per the spec I'd
> >prefer to keep the current tsec.c code and add CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
> >workarounds to the P2020DS (already done in commit
> >90b5bf211b85eee10c34cbeb907ce381142b7c99?) and MPC8572DS.
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> From the App Note you mentioned, I didn't find that the auto-negotiation 
> can't be used.

My understanding is that the SGMII link is always at 1000Mbps speed -
see figure 1 from the app note.  Additionally look at figure 3.  My
understand from it, and the app note's text is that SGMII
auto-negotiation doesn't really occur - its just passing the PHY-side
auto-negotiation results to the Freescale MAC, which software then
configures.  I'm not sure what the purpose of the "SGMII
auto-negotiation" is - its not really auto-negotiating and the same
information can be read from the PHY via its MDIO interface, which is
what is happening on X-ES boards currently.

We were told by a Freescale FAE that SGMII auto-negotiation wasn't
supported, although 1000 BASE-X auto-negotation was (which mirrored our
test results).  I can dig up the old emails tomorrow at the office with
the details.

> Actually we need the auto-negotiation enabled for almost all Freescale 
> reference boards such as P2020DS, MPC8572DS and P1/P2 RDB boards.  If we 
> disable the auto-negotiation on these boards, the SGMII link won't work.  So 
> I guess it might be more common to use auto-negotiation, and a fixed 1000M 
> link is more like a special case.  I'm not sure what's the recommended way 
> for SGMII PHY interconnect though.

And auto-negotation doesn't work on X-ES hardware which all use Broadcom
PHYs - which is why I made the original change after consulting a
Freescale FAE.  Its not a huge deal to me either way as long as the
XPedite5370 and XPedite5500 continue to not use SGMII auto-negotiation.
Can someone at Freescale provide a definitive answer about what the
proper SGMII auto-negotiation scheme is?  And has anyone used it
successfully or unsuccessfully with a non-Vitesse PHY?

Best,
Peter

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Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-11-17 Thread Li Yang-R58472
>Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full
>duplex in SGMII mode"
>
>Hi Zhao,
>
>> In message <1289986984-2314-1-git-send-email-b26...@freescale.com> you
>wrote:
>> > On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
>> > VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
>> > for SGMII mode cause link problems.
>> >
>> > Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.
>
>Based on my company's discussions with Freescale and Freescale's appnotes
>I believe that the current implementation is correct.  I make reference to
>some of this in the original patch:
>http://old.nabble.com/-U-Boot---PATCH--tsec:-Force-TBI-PHY-to-1000Mbps-
>full-duplex-in-SGMII-mode-td26188785.html
>
>We use Broadcom PHYs on our boards, which likely has something to do with
>the discrepancies between the P2020DS/MPC8572DS vs the
>XPedite5370/XPedite5500.  Unless you have additional information that
>shows that in-band SGMII auto-negotiation does work per the spec I'd
>prefer to keep the current tsec.c code and add CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
>workarounds to the P2020DS (already done in commit
>90b5bf211b85eee10c34cbeb907ce381142b7c99?) and MPC8572DS.


Hi Peter,

>From the App Note you mentioned, I didn't find that the auto-negotiation can't 
>be used.

Actually we need the auto-negotiation enabled for almost all Freescale 
reference boards such as P2020DS, MPC8572DS and P1/P2 RDB boards.  If we 
disable the auto-negotiation on these boards, the SGMII link won't work.  So I 
guess it might be more common to use auto-negotiation, and a fixed 1000M link 
is more like a special case.  I'm not sure what's the recommended way for SGMII 
PHY interconnect though.

- Leo


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Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Tyser
Hi Zhao,

> In message <1289986984-2314-1-git-send-email-b26...@freescale.com> you wrote:
> > On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
> > VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
> > for SGMII mode cause link problems.
> > 
> > Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.

Based on my company's discussions with Freescale and Freescale's
appnotes I believe that the current implementation is correct.  I make
reference to some of this in the original patch:
http://old.nabble.com/-U-Boot---PATCH--tsec:-Force-TBI-PHY-to-1000Mbps-full-duplex-in-SGMII-mode-td26188785.html

We use Broadcom PHYs on our boards, which likely has something to do
with the discrepancies between the P2020DS/MPC8572DS vs the
XPedite5370/XPedite5500.  Unless you have additional information that
shows that in-band SGMII auto-negotiation does work per the spec I'd
prefer to keep the current tsec.c code and add
CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS workarounds to the P2020DS (already done in
commit 90b5bf211b85eee10c34cbeb907ce381142b7c99?) and MPC8572DS.

Best,
Peter

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Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Zhao Chenhui,

In message <1289986984-2314-1-git-send-email-b26...@freescale.com> you wrote:
> On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
> VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
> for SGMII mode cause link problems.
> 
> Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.

This patch description is wrong, as you do not simply revert that
patch.  Instead, you modify  the code, shifting the setting from a
geric one into a XPEDITE5370 specific one.

When doing so, you should at least put the respective board maintainer
on CC.  I understand your patch was not even tested on the XPEDITE5370
board?


But actually I think your approach is wrong - Peter's solution looks
reasobanle to me.  When your boards with a specific PHY have problems,
then your boards should add appropriate CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS to
their board config files.


If you insist in changing this code, you might as well clean it up a
bit, like that:


diff --git a/drivers/net/tsec.c b/drivers/net/tsec.c
index 9b5dd92..c205a7e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tsec.c
@@ -292,13 +292,11 @@ static uint tsec_local_mdio_read(volatile tsec_mdio_t 
*phyregs,
 
 /* By default force the TBI PHY into 1000Mbps full duplex when in SGMII mode */
 #ifndef CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
-#define TBICR_SETTINGS ( \
+#define CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS ( \
TBICR_PHY_RESET \
| TBICR_FULL_DUPLEX \
| TBICR_SPEED1_SET \
)
-#else
-#define TBICR_SETTINGS CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
 #endif /* CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS */
 
 /* Configure the TBI for SGMII operation */
@@ -311,7 +309,7 @@ static void tsec_configure_serdes(struct tsec_private *priv)
tsec_local_mdio_write(priv->phyregs_sgmii, priv->regs->tbipa, 
TBI_TBICON,
TBICON_CLK_SELECT);
tsec_local_mdio_write(priv->phyregs_sgmii, priv->regs->tbipa, TBI_CR,
-   TBICR_SETTINGS);
+   CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS);
 }
 
 /* Discover which PHY is attached to the device, and configure it



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 04:43:04 Zhao Chenhui wrote:
> On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
> VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
> for SGMII mode cause link problems.
> 
> Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.

"revert and fix" is not a "revert".  the summary you used is reserved for pure 
reverts of commits which this is not that.  so fix your summary or split the 
changes into two commits.
-mike


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[U-Boot] [PATCH] revert "tsec: Force TBI PHY to 1000Mbps full duplex in SGMII mode"

2010-11-17 Thread Zhao Chenhui
On P2020DS and MPC8572DS, the link to SGMII card which use Vitesse
VSC8234 PHY can't come up. Current TBI PHY settings(TBICR_SETTINGS)
for SGMII mode cause link problems.

Revert commit 46e91674fb4b6d06c6a4984c0b5ac7d9a16923f4, and fix it.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Chenhui 
---
 drivers/net/tsec.c|2 +-
 include/configs/XPEDITE5370.h |7 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tsec.c b/drivers/net/tsec.c
index 9b5dd92..862b0db 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tsec.c
@@ -290,10 +290,10 @@ static uint tsec_local_mdio_read(volatile tsec_mdio_t 
*phyregs,
| TBIANA_FULL_DUPLEX \
)
 
-/* By default force the TBI PHY into 1000Mbps full duplex when in SGMII mode */
 #ifndef CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS
 #define TBICR_SETTINGS ( \
TBICR_PHY_RESET \
+   | TBICR_ANEG_ENABLE \
| TBICR_FULL_DUPLEX \
| TBICR_SPEED1_SET \
)
diff --git a/include/configs/XPEDITE5370.h b/include/configs/XPEDITE5370.h
index 8225fff..aa1d1a8 100644
--- a/include/configs/XPEDITE5370.h
+++ b/include/configs/XPEDITE5370.h
@@ -370,6 +370,13 @@ extern unsigned long get_board_ddr_clk(unsigned long 
dummy);
 #define TSEC2_PHYIDX   0
 #define CONFIG_HAS_ETH1
 
+/*  TBI PHY configuration for SGMII mode */
+#define CONFIG_TSEC_TBICR_SETTINGS (   \
+   TBICR_PHY_RESET \
+   | TBICR_FULL_DUPLEX \
+   | TBICR_SPEED1_SET  \
+   )
+
 /*
  * Command configuration.
  */
-- 
1.6.4.1



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