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* [PATCH] igb: Workaround for igb i210 firmware issue.
@ 2016-11-02 14:13 Chris J Arges
  2016-11-07 23:55 ` Brown, Aaron F
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Chris J Arges @ 2016-11-02 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jh; +Cc: intel-wired-lan, Chris J Arges, Jeff Kirsher, netdev, linux-kernel

Sometimes firmware may not properly initialize I347AT4_PAGE_SELECT causing
the probe of an igb i210 NIC to fail. This patch adds an addition zeroing of
this register during igb_get_phy_id to workaround this issue.

Thanks for Jochen Henneberg for the idea and original patch.

Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <christopherarges@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c
index 5b54254..93ec2d0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ s32 igb_get_phy_id(struct e1000_hw *hw)
 	s32 ret_val = 0;
 	u16 phy_id;
 
+	/* ensure phy page selection to fix misconfigured i210 */
+	if (hw->mac.type == e1000_i210)
+		phy->ops.write_reg(hw, I347AT4_PAGE_SELECT, 0);
+
 	ret_val = phy->ops.read_reg(hw, PHY_ID1, &phy_id);
 	if (ret_val)
 		goto out;
-- 
2.7.4

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* RE: [PATCH] igb: Workaround for igb i210 firmware issue.
  2016-11-02 14:13 [PATCH] igb: Workaround for igb i210 firmware issue Chris J Arges
@ 2016-11-07 23:55 ` Brown, Aaron F
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Brown, Aaron F @ 2016-11-07 23:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chris J Arges, jh
  Cc: intel-wired-lan, Kirsher, Jeffrey T, netdev, linux-kernel

> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Chris J Arges
> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 7:14 AM
> To: jh@henneberg-systemdesign.com
> Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; Chris J Arges
> <christopherarges@gmail.com>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] igb: Workaround for igb i210 firmware issue.
> 
> Sometimes firmware may not properly initialize I347AT4_PAGE_SELECT
> causing
> the probe of an igb i210 NIC to fail. This patch adds an addition zeroing of
> this register during igb_get_phy_id to workaround this issue.
> 
> Thanks for Jochen Henneberg for the idea and original patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <christopherarges@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>

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