From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH master] net: am65-cpsw-nuss: fix up PHY mode for fixed RGMII TX delay
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:28:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <177202973189.3053674.1686913554304147024.b4-ty@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260225140256.165703-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:02:49 +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> To restore compatibility with newer Linux device trees and fix network
> breakage on Beagleplay, import following U-Boot commit:
>
> | commit 4b10bcfdef9cb544ca80988fe36d307a622bcd21
> | Author: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
> | AuthorDate: Tue Sep 30 10:05:11 2025 +0200
> | Commit: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> | CommitDate: Fri Oct 10 11:07:44 2025 -0600
> |
> | net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: fix up PHY mode for fixed RGMII TX delay
> |
> | The am65-cpsw driver currently sets the SEL_RGMII_IDMODE flag in a MAC's
> | mode register to enable or disable the TX delay. While this was supported
> | for earlier generations of the CPSW controller, the datasheets of all
> | modern TI SoCs using the am65-cpsw MAC state that the TX delay is fixed,
> | and the SEL_RGMII_IDMODE bit is documented as reserved in most of them.
> | Furthermore, while it was found that this bit does in fact disable the TX
> | delay, [1] states that this setting is truly unsupported by TI and not
> | just undocumented.
> |
> | Following the clarification of the rgmii* phy-mode values in the Linux
> | DT bindings in [2], the Linux am65-cpsw driver was changed in [3] to
> | account for the fixed TX delay by fixing up the mode passed to the PHY
> | driver; a similar fixup already existed in the TI icssg-prueth driver.
> | [4] followed up on this by explicitly clearing the SEL_RGMII_IDMODE flag
> | to handle the case where it is set by the bootloader or other firmware
> | before Linux.
> |
> | With the above changes, Device Trees that set the recommended "rgmii-id"
> | mode are now appearing in Linux 6.17+. Avoid setting the unsupported
> | SEL_RGMII_IDMODE flag for such Device Trees, and instead fix up the PHY
> | interface mode, thus aligning the U-Boot driver with the Linux kernel.
> |
> | [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg1112647.html
> | [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c360eb0c3ccb95306704fd221442283ee82f1f58
> | [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca13b249f291f4920466638d1adbfb3f9c8db6e9
> | [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a22d3b0d49d411e64ed07e30c2095035ecb30ed2
> |
> | Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] net: am65-cpsw-nuss: fix up PHY mode for fixed RGMII TX delay
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=810120e81a95 (link may not be stable)
Best regards,
--
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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