[PATCH] ARM: dts: aspeed: Enable networking for Asus Kommando IPMI Card

[Andrew Lunn]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 07:14:04PM -0500, Anirudh Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi Andrew
> 
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 7:05 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 06:39:59PM -0500, Anirudh Srinivasan wrote:
> > > Adds the DT nodes needed for ethernet support for Asus Kommando, with
> > > phy mode set to rgmii-id.
> > >
> > > When this DT was originally added, the phy mode was set to rgmii (which
> > > was incorrect). It was suggested to remove networking support from the
> > > DT till the Aspeed networking driver was patched so that the correct phy
> > > mode could be used.
> > >
> > > The discussion in [1] mentions that u-boot was inserting clk delays that
> > > weren't needed, which resulted in needing to set the phy mode in linux
> > > to rgmii incorrectly. The solution suggested there was to patch u-boot to
> > > no longer insert these clk delays and use rgmii-id as the phy mode for
> > > any future DTs added to linux.
> > >
> > > This DT was tested with a u-boot DT modified to insert clk delays of 0
> > > (instead of patching u-boot itself). [2] adds a u-boot DT for this
> > > device (without networking) and describes how to patch it to add
> > > networking support. If this patched DT is used, then networking works
> > > with rgmii-id phy mode in both u-boot and linux.
> >
> > I've been looking at
> >
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/u-boot/v2026.04-rc5/source/drivers/clk/aspeed/clk_ast2600.c
> >
> > And i don't see where mac2-clk-delay is implemented. Could you point
> > out the code?
> 
> I'm testing against the u-boot version that openbmc uses for its
> builds. I don't think upstream u-boot is used by openbmc.
> 
> https://github.com/openbmc/u-boot/blob/v2019.04-aspeed-openbmc/drivers/clk/aspeed/clk_ast2600.c#L999

Please include in the commit message that you need to use a fork of
u-boot.

	Andrew