Commit ae8ff9c5 authored by Takeshi Kihara's avatar Takeshi Kihara Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: dts: renesas: ebisu: Remove renesas, no-ether-link property

[ Upstream commit 90d4fa39 ]

It is incorrect to specify the no-ether-link property for the AVB device on
the Ebisu board. This is because the property should only be used when a
board does not provide a proper AVB_LINK signal. However, the Ebisu board
does provide this signal.

As per 87c059e9 ("arm64: dts: renesas: salvator-x: Remove renesas,
no-ether-link property") this fixes a bug:

    Steps to reproduce:
    - start AVB TX stream (Using aplay via MSE),
    - disconnect+reconnect the eth cable,
    - after a reconnection the eth connection goes iteratively up/down
      without user interaction,
    - this may heal after some seconds or even stay for minutes.

    As the documentation specifies, the "renesas,no-ether-link" option
    should be used when a board does not provide a proper AVB_LINK signal.
    There is no need for this option enabled on RCAR H3/M3 Salvator-X/XS
    and ULCB starter kits since the AVB_LINK is correctly handled by HW.

    Choosing to keep or remove the "renesas,no-ether-link" option will have
    impact on the code flow in the following ways:
    - keeping this option enabled may lead to unexpected behavior since the
      RX & TX are enabled/disabled directly from adjust_link function
      without any HW interrogation,
    - removing this option, the RX & TX will only be enabled/disabled after
      HW interrogation. The HW check is made through the LMON pin in PSR
      register which specifies AVB_LINK signal value (0 - at low level;
      1 - at high level).

    In conclusion, the present change is also a safety improvement because
    it removes the "renesas,no-ether-link" option leading to a proper way
    of detecting the link state based on HW interrogation and not on
    software heuristic.

Fixes: 8441ef64 ("arm64: dts: renesas: r8a77990: ebisu: Enable EthernetAVB")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakeshi Kihara <takeshi.kihara.df@renesas.com>
[simon: updated changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent ccc988d6
......@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ memory@48000000 {
&avb {
pinctrl-0 = <&avb_pins>;
pinctrl-names = "default";
renesas,no-ether-link;
phy-handle = <&phy0>;
phy-mode = "rgmii-txid";
status = "okay";
......
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