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Commit bdbdac76 authored by Oleksij Rempel's avatar Oleksij Rempel Committed by David S. Miller
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ethtool: provide UAPI for PHY master/slave configuration.



This UAPI is needed for BroadR-Reach 100BASE-T1 devices. Due to lack of
auto-negotiation support, we needed to be able to configure the
MASTER-SLAVE role of the port manually or from an application in user
space.

The same UAPI can be used for 1000BASE-T or MultiGBASE-T devices to
force MASTER or SLAVE role. See IEEE 802.3-2018:
22.2.4.3.7 MASTER-SLAVE control register (Register 9)
22.2.4.3.8 MASTER-SLAVE status register (Register 10)
40.5.2 MASTER-SLAVE configuration resolution
45.2.1.185.1 MASTER-SLAVE config value (1.2100.14)
45.2.7.10 MultiGBASE-T AN control 1 register (Register 7.32)

The MASTER-SLAVE role affects the clock configuration:

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When the  PHY is configured as MASTER, the PMA Transmit function shall
source TX_TCLK from a local clock source. When configured as SLAVE, the
PMA Transmit function shall source TX_TCLK from the clock recovered from
data stream provided by MASTER.

iMX6Q                     KSZ9031                XXX
------\                /-----------\        /------------\
      |                |           |        |            |
 MAC  |<----RGMII----->| PHY Slave |<------>| PHY Master |
      |<--- 125 MHz ---+-<------/  |        | \          |
------/                \-----------/        \------------/
                                               ^
                                                \-TX_TCLK

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Since some clock or link related issues are only reproducible in a
specific MASTER-SLAVE-role, MAC and PHY configuration, it is beneficial
to provide generic (not 100BASE-T1 specific) interface to the user space
for configuration flexibility and trouble shooting.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3d59a583
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