Re: [PATCH for v4.9 LTS 064/111] ARM64: dts: meson-gxbb-odroidc2: fix GbE tx link breakage

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On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:45:49PM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-06-04 at 08:12 +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> > From: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit feb3cbea0946c67060e2d5bcb7499b0a6f6700fe ]
> > 
> > OdroidC2 GbE link breaks under heavy tx transfer. This happens even if the
> > MAC does not enable Energy Efficient Ethernet (No Low Power state Idle on
> > the Tx path). The problem seems to come from the phy Rx path, entering the
> > LPI state.
> > 
> > Disabling EEE advertisement on the phy prevent this feature to be
> > negociated with the link partner and solve the issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Alexander,
> 
> unfortunately, this dt change alone won't fix the problem. The code related to
> eee-broken-**** has been merged into mainline around the same time as this
> particular change.
> 
> For this flag to actually do something you'll need the following commits:
> 
> d853d145ea3e63387a2ac759aa41d5e43876e561
> 1fc31357ad194fb98691f3d122bcd47e59239e83
> 3bb9ab63276696988d8224f52db20e87194deb4b
> 57f3986231bb2c69a55ccab1d2b30a00818027ac
> 308d3165d8b2b98d3dc3d97d6662062735daea67

Thanks, Jerome!

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha



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