topic Re: LS1046a MAC to MAC 1000base-kx connection in Layerscape

LS1046a MAC to MAC 1000base-kx connection

m-rains — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:44:28 GMT

Hello all,

I have an issue that likely has a simple solution. I have two LS1046's on a custom board that I am attempting to connect together MAC to MAC. My RCW serdes settings are 0x3040 0x5A06, and this 1000base-kx link is on MAC 2 (serdes 2, lane B).

In u-boot, the devices can ping each other over SGMII, and I am in the early stages of writing a 1000base-kx driver. The important thing is they can see eachother.

This is using yocto 3.1.1, kernel 5.4.3, and I took fsl_backplane.c from linux-extras.

In linux, the device fails to probe with error -12. Ignore the other errors on other interfaces, I just don't have them disabled in the device tree currently. I did add a few printk's in the dpaa_eth driver

[ 8.419458] fsl_dpa: dpaa_eth.c:1143:dpa_load() FSL DPAA Ethernet driver

[ 8.426269] Probing soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@0

[ 8.428002] fsl_dpa: dpaa_eth.c:1086:dpaa_eth_priv_probe() fsl_dpa: Probed interface eth0

[ 8.440411] Probing soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@2

[ 8.440449] fsl_dpa soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@2: of_find_device_by_node(ethernet@e4000) failed

[ 8.452909] fsl_dpa: probe of soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@2 failed with error -22

[ 8.459895] Probing soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@4

[ 8.461583] fsl_dpa: dpaa_eth.c:1086:dpaa_eth_priv_probe() fsl_dpa: Probed interface eth1

[ 8.473990] Probing soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@5

[ 8.475997] fsl_dpa: dpaa_eth.c:1086:dpaa_eth_priv_probe() fsl_dpa: Probed interface eth2

[ 8.488411] Probing soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@8

[ 8.488446] fsl_dpa soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@8: of_find_device_by_node(ethernet@f0000) failed

[ 8.500904] fsl_dpa: probe of soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@8 failed with error -22

[ 8.507890] Probing soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@9

[ 8.510213] fsl_dpa: dpaa_eth.c:1086:dpaa_eth_priv_probe() fsl_dpa: Probed interface eth3

[ 8.522608] fsl_advanced: dpaa_eth_base.c:193:dpa_advanced_load() FSL DPAA Advanced drivers:

[ 8.531054] fsl_proxy: dpaa_eth_proxy.c:354:dpa_proxy_load() FSL DPAA Proxy initialization driver

[ 8.540043] fsl_proxy-proxy soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@1: devm_kzalloc() failed

[ 8.546926] fsl_proxy-proxy: probe of soc:fsl,dpaa:ethernet@1 failed with error -12

[ 8.554604] fsl_oh: offline_port.c:823:oh_port_load() FSL FMan Offline Parsing port driver

I have primarily used this page and these questions for reference:

https://docs.nxp.com/bundle/GUID-9160E9B1-ADBC-4313-9837-773DA05262FB/page/GUID-0C4917DA-76E3-455C-AEAC-366B4D9BCFF3.html

https://community.nxp.com/t5/Layerscape/LS1046A-serdes-backplane-eth-driver-amp-device-tree-questions/m-p/1497532

https://community.nxp.com/t5/QorIQ/Eval-Board-for-1000Base-KX-LS1046A/m-p/1178936

My device tree uses the following:

fsl-ls1046a_gpp.dts

&soc{

serdes2: serdes@1eb0000 {

reg = <0x0 0x1eb0000 0 0x00002000>;

compatible = "fsl,serdes-10g";

little-endian;

};

...

};

&fman0 {

mdio@e3000 {

pcsphy1: ethernet-phy@0 {

backplane-mode = "1000base-kx";

compatible = "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c45";

reg = <0x0>;

fsl,lane-handle = <&serdes2>;

fsl,lane-reg = <0x840 0x40>; /* lane B */

};

...

};

fsl-ls1046a_gpp-sdk.dts

&fsldpaa {

ethernet@1 {

compatible = "fsl,dpa-ethernet-init";

fsl,fman-mac = <&enet1>;

dma-coherent;

};

...

};

1. Is a MAC to MAC link possible with this driver?

2. If so, what am I doing wrong?

3. I tried doing a SGMII link before this, though it is unconventional for this use case. I received error -22 when probing and couldn't figure it out. Should I go back to attempting this method?

Thank you. Verbosity is appreciated, as I am very new to this.

Re: LS1046a MAC to MAC 1000base-kx connection

SebastianG — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:58:05 GMT

Hello @m-rains,

I would like to inform you that I'm working on your questions, I will let you know as soon as I have an update.

Thank you so much for your patience

Regards,

Sebastian

Re: LS1046a MAC to MAC 1000base-kx connection

m-rains — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:18:31 GMT

Sebastian,
Thank you, I appreciate any help I can get.

Regards,
m-rains

Re: LS1046a MAC to MAC 1000base-kx connection

m-rains — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:08:11 GMT

Just an update for any future readers - I was not able to figure out 1000base-kx, but I was able to figure out a fixed sgmii link, while unconventional, is good enough for my application.

There was an alias conflict in my device tree, making MAC 2 not probe. I don't know what driver caused this, unfortunately. Additionally, serdes 2 PLL 2 needed to be reset.

I changed ethernet1 to ethernetx1:

fsl-ls1046a_gpp.dts

&fman0 {

ethernet@e2000 {

fixed-link = <0 1 1000 0 0>;

phy-connection-type = "sgmii";

};

fsl-ls1046a_gpp-sdk.dts

&fsldpaa {

ethernet@1 {

compatible = "fsl,dpa-ethernet-init";

fsl,fman-mac = <&enet1>;

dma-coherent;

};

fsl-ls1046a.dtsi

/ {

aliases {

ethernetx1 = &enet1;

};

Serdes 2 PLL 2 reset, thanks to andreloddenkemp, source.
I inserted this into one of the last enet initialization driver probes via ioremap. Everything worked perfectly after that.

Regards,

m-rains

Re: LS1046a MAC to MAC 1000base-kx connection

gkrishna — Sat, 10 May 2025 06:21:10 GMT

Hi Mrains,

I am using similar thing in my custom board mac to mac, and that goes to sfp cage straight away.

Could you please let me know what changes you did to make in u-boot especially.

Could you please point out the rcw, u-boot changes if any and the linux changes to test.

I am in the bring up stage, this info would be really helpful.

Thanks,

Gopi Krishna M