From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Bjarni Jonasson <bjarni.jonasson@microchip.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
UNGLinuxDriver <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: phylink: Fix CuSFP issue in phylink
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:19:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201115121921.GI1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6voqntq.fsf@microchip.com>
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Bjarni Jonasson wrote:
>
> Russell King - ARM Linux admin writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:16:34PM +0100, Bjarni Jonasson wrote:
> >>
> >> Russell King - ARM Linux admin writes:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:06:42AM +0100, Bjarni Jonasson wrote:
> >> >> There is an issue with the current phylink driver and CuSFPs which
> >> >> results in a callback to the phylink validate function without any
> >> >> advertisement capabilities. The workaround (in this changeset)
> >> >> is to assign capabilities if a 1000baseT SFP is identified.
> >> >
> >> > How does this happen? Which PHY is being used?
> >>
> >> This occurs just by plugging in the CuSFP.
> >> None of the CuSFPs we have tested are working.
> >> This is a dump from 3 different CuSFPs, phy regs 0-3:
> >> FS SFP: 01:40:79:49
> >> HP SFP: 01:40:01:49
> >> Marvel SFP: 01:40:01:49
> >> This was working before the delayed mac config was implemented (in dec
> >> 2019).
> >
> > You're dumping PHY registers 0 and 1 there, not 0 through 3, which
> > the values confirm. I don't recognise the format either. PHY registers
> > are always 16-bit.
> Sorry about that. Here is it again:
> Marvell SFP : 0x0140 0x0149 0x0141 0x0cc1
> FS SFP : 0x1140 0x7949 0x0141 0x0cc2
> Cisco SFP : 0x0140 0x0149 0x0141 0x0cc1
> I.e. its seems to be a Marvell phy (0x0141) in all cases.
> And this occurs when phylink_start() is called.
So they're all 88E1111 devices, which is the most common PHY for
CuSFPs.
Do you have the Marvell PHY driver either built-in or available as a
module? I suspect the problem is you don't. You will need the Marvell
PHY driver to correctly drive the PHY, you can't rely on the fallback
driver for SFPs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-15 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 10:06 [PATCH] phy: phylink: Fix CuSFP issue in phylink Bjarni Jonasson
2020-11-10 10:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-10 14:16 ` Bjarni Jonasson
2020-11-10 15:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-11 8:52 ` Bjarni Jonasson
2020-11-15 12:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2020-11-17 11:09 ` Bjarni Jonasson
2020-11-17 13:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-11-17 15:08 ` Florian Fainelli
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