[PATCH 0/5] fixups for mpc8360 rev. 2.1 erratum #2 (RGMII Timing)

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Fri Nov 9 05:39:52 EST 2007


On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:15:08PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:16:11 +0300
> Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:15:30PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > the following patches fix RGMII timing for rev. 2.1 of the mpc8360,
> > > according to erratum #2 (erratum text included below).  Basically the
> > > most intrusive part is the addition of two new RGMII Internal Delay
> > > modes; one for TX delay only, and the other for RX delay only (i.e, not
> > > both at the same time).
> > > 
> > > Please review, and since this affects both netdev and powerpc trees,
> > > one maintainer should ack them for the other to push upstream (i.e,
> > > Kumar acks them, and Leo picks them up to go through netdev or the
> > > other way around; either way is fine with me).  I'm hoping they're
> > > trivial enough to go in 2.6.24.
> > > 
> > > Depending on how the review goes, a follow-on patch to u-boot will be
> > > sent out that fixes up the phy-connection-type in the device tree (from
> > > "rgmii-id" to "rgmii-rxid" iff on mpc8360rev2.1).
> > 
> > I've upgraded CPU to rev2.1, board rev0.3.
> > 
> thanks for testing this.  I tested these patches on a "pilot assy 0.3".

Same here.

> > Applied 5/5 patches onto paulus/powerpc.git at e403149c92a. Here is
> > the results:
> > 
> > If I use -rxid, then geth not able to transmit anything.
> > With -txid geth not able to receive anything.
> > 
> > With just -id everything works fine though...
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe there should be another condition, in addition to cpu rev2.1?
> > 
> the errata simply states 'pilot boards', but we can probably modify
> u-boot to look at the cpu rev and the board rev (BCSR 12).
> 
> My bcsr12 looks like:
> 
> =>  md.b f800000c 1
> f800000c: 10    .
> 
> what is yours?

=> md.b f800000c 1
f800000c: 10    .

:-/

U-Boot 1.3.0-rc3-g281df457-dirty (Nov  6 2007 - 18:19:35) MPC83XX
CPU:   e300c1, MPC8360E, Rev: 21 at 528 MHz, CSB:  264 MHz

root at b1:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
cpu             : e300c1
clock           : 528.000000MHz
revision        : 3.1 (pvr 8083 0031)
bogomips        : 131.58
timebase        : 66000000
platform        : MPC836x MDS


+               /* handle mpc8360ea rev.2.1 erratum 2: RGMII Timing */
+               svid = mfspr(SPRN_SVR);
+               if (svid == 0x80480021) {

^^ that branch executes on the board I'm testing.

> If it's something like 0x03, the u-boot patch will probably look like:
> 
> if ((bcsr[12] == 0x10) &&
>     (immr->sysconf.spridr == SPR_8360_REV21 ||
>      immr->sysconf.spridr == SPR_8360E_REV21))
> 	/* if phy-connection-type is "rgmii-id", set it to "rgmii-rxid" */
>         ...
> 
> but these linux patches would remain the same (the clk and data delay
> settings for the UCC's are still valid; it's just the PHY config
> that is triggering your problem from what I can tell).

Yup, most likely this is not UCC specific, but PHY. For some reason
delays making harm here...


Thanks,

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