Hello
On 5/22/2016 11:30 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2016 17:47:05 +0200
Bert Lindner <bert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
On 2016-05-20 12:36, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 20/05/16 11:30, Andre Heider wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO
<peppe.cavallaro@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/20/2016 9:56 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 20/05/16 06:44, Andre Heider wrote:
Giuseppe, Alexandre, et al.,
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:56:40 +0100
Bert Lindner <bert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2016-03-16 18:42, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 16/03/16 15:10, Bert Lindner wrote:
On 2016-03-16 14:10, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 16.03.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Robin Murphy:
On 16/03/16 11:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 16/03/16 11:19, Bert Lindner wrote:
...
For the board sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2, there seems to be a
problem
with the eth0 PHY in mainline kernel 4.5.0 that developed since
4.5.0-rc7. Ethernet does not work, although eth0 is reported:
...
[ 9.767125] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 10.357405] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found
[ 10.362382] eth0: Could not attach to PHY
[ 10.366557] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)
...
v4 fixes for 4.5 are here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598195/ (revert)
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598196/
...
Good to know, thanks. Could you also give the potential fix a go (as
mentioned by Andreas)? Just to make sure that whatever gets merged
next
will actually fix the issue.
Yes sure, it took a while because I had to travel. Confirmed, the
v4-for-4.5 fix works well for me, on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2:
root@lime2-079f:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.5.0-598195-598196-v4 (root@lime2-079f) (gcc version
4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 16:44:22 UTC
2016
dmesg:
[ 8.245273] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 9.297406] RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
[ 9.297460] No MAC Management Counters available
[ 9.297951] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 16.285658] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up -
1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[ 16.285798] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
The board is connected to my laptop rather than to a switch, so that
might be where the flow control message comes from (not sure). Anyway
ethernet works.
Cool, many thanks for taking the time to test and report.
Hopefully Giuseppe will get this merged quickly enough in mainline, and
it should then trickle into a 4.5-stable release (cc-ing stable on
these patches would probably be a good idea, BTW).
stmmac is broken on at least Lime2, BananaPi and Cubieboard2 since
v4.5 [0], including all five stable releases :(
All the A20 platforms are dead, actually.
The v4.5 patches quoted above are already +4 weeks old, could we
please get them into stable?
For that, the maintainer would have needed to CC stable, which he
didn't. I'd expect someone who cares to send these patches to stable.
It'd be better if the maintainer would do it himself though.
sure, I can send the patches to stable (sorry if I missed to add
stable ML on CC).
Andre, I have not clear if the train of patches actually fix the
issue or if you need my support to fix something else. In that case
I need some input for debugging (e.g. kernel log).
Bert already confirmed that those two patches fixes stmmac on his
Lime2, so I assume that it fixes the issue for all A20 platforms.
let me know, is it enough to re-send the patches only?
Just a resend with cc:stable :)
Not quite. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, and the
section that concerns networking patches (and then consult
Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt which has all the details).
FWIW, recent 4.6-rc series and 4.6.0 have worked fine for me and the
lime2. Had not tried 4.5.x again.
We've already established this. This is a 4.5-specific regression (both
4.4 and 4.6 are fine). One major issue is that Debian Stretch is
currently shipping with 4.5, and upgrading to it results in a system
without networking. Should this patch make it into stable, the fix would
quickly percolate into distro kernels, and we could forget about it.
I have just ported and sent the patches to stable list.
[PATCH 0/2 (linux-stable-4.5.y)] net: stmmac: MDIO fixes
Please, let me know if it is ok for you.
Peppe
Thanks,
M.
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