This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: dts: sun7i: lamobo-r1: Fix CPU port RGMII settings to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-dts-sun7i-lamobo-r1-fix-cpu-port-rgmii-settings.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0cdefd5b5485ee6eb3512a75739d09a4090176ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:53:20 -0700 Subject: ARM: dts: sun7i: lamobo-r1: Fix CPU port RGMII settings From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0cdefd5b5485ee6eb3512a75739d09a4090176ed upstream. The CPU port of the BCM53125 is configured with RGMII (no delays) but this should actually be RGMII with transmit delay (rgmii-txid) because STMMAC takes care of inserting the transmitter delay. This fixes occasional packet loss encountered. Fixes: d7b9eaff5f0c ("ARM: dts: sun7i: Add BCM53125 switch nodes to the lamobo-r1 board") Reported-by: Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-lamobo-r1.dts | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-lamobo-r1.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-lamobo-r1.dts @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ reg = <8>; label = "cpu"; ethernet = <&gmac>; - phy-mode = "rgmii"; + phy-mode = "rgmii-txid"; fixed-link { speed = <1000>; full-duplex; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/arm-dts-nsp-gpio-reboot-open-source.patch queue-4.9/arm-dts-sun7i-lamobo-r1-fix-cpu-port-rgmii-settings.patch