Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] net: stmmac: Add NPCM support

[Tomer Maimon]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 20:45, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 07:50:57PM +0200, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Thanks for your comments
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 at 18:42, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +void npcm_dwmac_pcs_init(struct npcm_dwmac *dwmac, struct device *dev,
> > > > +                      struct plat_stmmacenet_data *plat_dat)
> > > > +{
> > > > +     u16 val;
> > > > +
> > > > +     iowrite16((u16)(SR_MII_CTRL >> 9), dwmac->reg + IND_AC_BA_REG);
> > > > +     val = ioread16(dwmac->reg + PCS_SR_MII_CTRL_REG);
> > > > +     val |= PCS_RST;
> > > > +     iowrite16(val, dwmac->reg + PCS_SR_MII_CTRL_REG);
> > > > +
> > > > +     while (val & PCS_RST)
> > > > +             val = ioread16(dwmac->reg + PCS_SR_MII_CTRL_REG);
> > > > +
> > > > +     val &= ~(PCS_AN_ENABLE);
> > > > +     iowrite16(val, dwmac->reg + PCS_SR_MII_CTRL_REG);
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Is this a licensed PCS implementation? Or home grown? If its been
> > > licensed from somebody, it maybe should live in driver/net/pcs, so
> > > others can reuse it when they license the same core.
>
> > we are using DWC PCS, I don't see support for DWC PCS and I am not
> > sure it is supposed to be supported at /drivers/net/pcs
>
> I've not followed the naming used by Synopsys. Is DWC PCS the same as
> XPCS? Does Synopsys have multiple PCS implementations?
>
> > I do see a patch set to support DWC PCS but I don't think it answers my needs
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/1559674736-2190-3-git-send-email-weifeng.voon@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> I _think_ this patch eventually got turned into
> driver/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c
>
> What exactly does it not do for you?
Thanks for pointing me to Synopsys (DWC) PCS in pcs-xpcs.c I need to
check if the driver follows all our SGMII needs
>
>      Andrew

Best regards,

Tomer