[PATCH 2/4] net: phy: marvell: Allow targets to skip MII RX/TX errata

[Paul Fertser]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 12:24:23PM -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 08:43:12PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:30:04AM -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> > Upstream-Status: Pending
> >> 
> >> Pending what exactly and why? I guess you're supposed to send your
> >> series upstream (to Linux devs) first, then after they're accepted you
> >> can ask for backporting them to OpenBMC tree. There're exceptions but
> >> you need to provide a rather convincing reason for that I guess. I'm
> >> not saying that in any official capacity, just as a sidenote, Joel
> >> will clarify if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > Huh, it wasn't at all obvious to me that your patches were meant for
> > U-boot, not Linux, sorry (and you didn't specify that in the
> > subject). There slightly different rules apply, but in general my
> > comments should all be still relevant. Overall impression I got is
> > that you're adding a bunch of hacks and that most things about them
> > would need to be heavily reworked to become digestible for upstream. I
> > hope more experienced developers will correct me if I'm wrong here.
...
> 
> I am assuming that new OpenBMC platforms can be merged into the
> U-boot tree here vs. upstream U-boot, as upstream doesn't fully
> support the ASpeed device?  When I attempted to apply and test to
> upstream, there was a lot of missing code and it wasn't clear at all
> that the result would ever be bootable on typical OpenBMC hardware
> designs.

It looks like like the current state is that people send patches like
[0] and [1] (notice the subject line, recepients, informative commit
messages etc), then it gets synced to OpenBMC by changes like [2],
then probably it used to propogate to Aspeed [3] (interesting how they
have a much newer branch but everybody is still stuck at v2019 one).

To get a general feel how U-Boot is dealt with in OpenBMC community
you can check [4].

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250117094434.16641-1-tan.siewert@hetzner.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240718152853.1291804-1-potin.lai.pt@gmail.com/
[2] https://gerrit.openbmc.org/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/73075
[3] https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/u-boot/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr
[4] https://gerrit.openbmc.org/q/message:u-boot

HTH