RE: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: phy: marvell10g: Add WAKE_PHY support to WOL event

From: Song, Yoong Siang
Date: Sun Aug 15 2021 - 23:19:41 EST


> > How does this work if the driver has no interrupt support? What is the
> > hardware setup this has been tested with?
>
> Hi Russell
>
> We already know from previous patches that the Intel hardware is broken,
> and does not actually deliver the interrupt which caused the wake up. So i
> assume this just continues on with the same broken hardware, but they have
> a different PHY connected.

Hi Russell & Andrew,

This is tested on Intel Elkhart Lake (EHL) board. We are using polling mode.
Both WoL interrupt and link change interrupt are the same pin which is
routed to PMC. PMC will wake up the system when there is WoL event.

Regards
Siang

>
> > What if we later want to add interrupt support to this driver to
> > support detecting changes in link state - isn't using this bit in the
> > interrupt enable register going to confict with that?
>
> Agreed. If the interrupt register is being used, i think we need this patchset to
> add proper interrupt support. Can you recommend a board they can buy off
> the shelf with the interrupt wired up? Or maybe Intel can find a hardware
> engineer to add a patch wire to link the interrupt output to a SoC pin that can
> do interrupts.
>
> Andrew