On 10/11/2016 04:48 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
On 09/23/2016 03:49 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for sending this! I have some comments below.

Cheers,
-Joe

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org>
wrote:

From: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>

This driver supports the Synopsys Designware Ethernet QoS (Quality of
Service) a/k/a eqos IP block, which is a different design than the HW
supported by the existing designware.c driver. The IP supports many
options for bus type, clocking/reset structure, and feature list. This
driver currently supports the specific configuration used in NVIDIA's
Tegra186 chip, but should be extensible to other combinations quite
easily, as explained in the source.

diff --git a/drivers/net/dwc_eth_qos.c b/drivers/net/dwc_eth_qos.c

+static int eqos_start(struct udevice *dev)

+       /* Update the MAC address */
+       val = (plat->enetaddr[5] << 8) |
+               (plat->enetaddr[4]);
+       writel(val, eqos->regs + EQOS_MAC_ADDRESS0_HIGH);
+       val = (plat->enetaddr[3] << 24) |
+               (plat->enetaddr[2] << 16) |
+               (plat->enetaddr[1] << 8) |
+               (plat->enetaddr[0]);
+       writel(val, eqos->regs + EQOS_MAC_ADDRESS0_LOW);


This should be implemented in write_hwaddr() op.

That op is never called because this driver is only instantiated by device
tree. Since this code can't be skipped, it can't be moved to that op.

I don't understand what you're saying here. That op is called in
eth_initialize() on every device found in device tree.

Oh, so it is. I must have screwed up my tracing before.

Anyway, I still don't believe using write_hwaddr() is correct for this HW. It's marked optional in include/net.h; it would be implemented in cases where the MAC address should be passed to subsequent SW in Ethernet controller registers. That's not the case here. The master location for the MAC address is in an unrelated EEPROM that all drivers must read. Resetting the device (as any driver would do to guarantee correct operation no matter what SW ran before), or never initializing it in the first place (as is the case now without any driver in U-Boot) means that those registers cannot be assumed to contain valid data. Thus SW after U-Boot won't rely on the MAC address register values, and hence there's no need to implement .write_hwaddr() separately, since that's the only reason it exists separately according to the comments in include/net.h.

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