Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: don't force settings on CPU port

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:29:27AM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On 3/28/20 12:52 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> I tried this as well with v5.5, but that leads to the external phy not
> >> seeing a link at all. Will check again though.
> > 
> > Did you turn off auto-neg on the external PHY and use fixed 100Full?
> > Ethtool on the SoC interface should show you if the switch PHY is
> > advertising anything. I'm guessing it is not, and hence you need to
> > turn off auto neg on the external PHY.
> > 
> > Another option would be something like
> > 
> >                                         port@6 {
> >                                                 reg = <6>;
> >                                                 label = "cpu";
> >                                                 ethernet = <&fec1>;
> > 
> >                                                 phy-handle = <phy6>;
> >                                         };
> >                                 };
> > 
> >                                 mdio {
> >                                         #address-cells = <1>;
> >                                         #size-cells = <0>;
> >                                         phy6: ethernet-phy@6 {
> >                                                 reg = <6>;
> >                                                 interrupt-parent = <&switch0>;
> >                                                 interrupts = <0 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> >                                         };
> >                                 };
> > 
> > By explicitly saying there is a PHY for the CPU node, phylink might
> > drive it.

You want to debug this. Although what you have is unusual, yours is
not the only board. It is something we want to work. And ideally,
there should be something controlling the PHY.

      Andrew