History log of /linux-master/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
Revision Date Author Comments
# 9d3de3c5 27-Jun-2019 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

dt-bindings: net: Add YAML schemas for the generic Ethernet options

The Ethernet controllers have a good number of generic options that can be
needed in a device tree. Add a YAML schemas for those.

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>


# 79b647a0 23-May-2019 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>

dt-bindings: net: document new usxgmii phy mode

Add new interface mode USXGMII to binding documentation.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 822dd046 07-May-2019 Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>

dt-bindings: net: Fix a typo in the phy-mode list for ethernet bindings

The phy_mode "2000base-x" is actually supposed to be "1000base-x", even
though the commit title of the original patch says otherwise.

Fixes: 55601a880690 ("net: phy: Add 2000base-x, 2500base-x and rxaui modes")
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 687e3d55 03-May-2019 Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>

dt-bindings: doc: reflect new NVMEM of_get_mac_address behaviour

As of_get_mac_address now supports NVMEM under the hood, we need to update
the bindings documentation with the new nvmem-cell* properties, which would
mean copy&pasting a lot of redundant information to every binding
documentation currently referencing some of the MAC address properties.

So I've just removed all the references to the optional MAC address
properties and replaced them with the small note referencing
net/ethernet.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 39420fe0 20-Apr-2019 Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>

dt-bindings: add an explanation for internal phy-mode

When working on the Allwinner internal PHY, the first work was to use
the "internal" mode, but some answer was made my mail on what are really
internal mean for PHY.

This patch write that in the doc.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 36ad7022 17-Apr-2019 Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>

of_net: Fix residues after of_get_nvmem_mac_address removal

I've discovered following discrepancy in the bindings/net/ethernet.txt
documentation, where it states following:

- nvmem-cells: phandle, reference to an nvmem node for the MAC address;
- nvmem-cell-names: string, should be "mac-address" if nvmem is to be..

which is actually misleading and confusing. There are only two ethernet
drivers in the tree, cadence/macb and davinci which supports this
properties.

This nvmem-cell* properties were introduced in commit 9217e566bdee
("of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper"), but
commit afa64a72b862 ("of: net: kill of_get_nvmem_mac_address()")
forget to properly clean up this parts.

So this patch fixes the documentation by moving the nvmem-cell*
properties at the appropriate places. While at it, I've removed unused
include as well.

Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Fixes: afa64a72b862 ("of: net: kill of_get_nvmem_mac_address()")
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 9217e566 28-Mar-2018 Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>

of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper

It's common practice to store MAC addresses for network interfaces into
nvmem devices. However the code to actually do this in the kernel lacks,
so this patch adds of_get_nvmem_mac_address() for drivers to obtain the
address from an nvmem cell provider.

This is particulary useful on devices where the ethernet interface cannot
be configured by the bootloader, for example because it's in an FPGA.

Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# c43593d8 07-Sep-2017 Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>

dt-bindings: net: don't confuse with generic PHY property

This complements commit 9a94b3a4bd (dt-binding: phy: don't confuse with
Ethernet phy properties).

The generic PHY 'phys' property sometime appears in the same node with
the Ethernet PHY 'phy' or 'phy-handle' properties. Add a warning in
ethernet.txt to reduce confusion.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 29b65f5f 23-Jun-2017 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

dt-bindings: Add "internal" as a valid 'phy-mode' property

A number of Ethernet MACs have internal Ethernet PHYs and the internal
wiring makes it so that this knowledge needs to be available using the
standard 'phy-mode' property.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 076fb0c4 22-Jun-2017 Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>

of: update ePAPR references to point to Devicetree Specification

The Devicetree Specification has superseded the ePAPR as the
base specification for bindings. Update files in Documentation
to reference the new document.

First reference to ePAPR in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt
is generic, remove it.

Some files are not updated because there is no hypervisor chapter
in the Devicetree Specification:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt
Documenation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
Documenation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>


# c125ca09 04-Jun-2017 Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

net: phy: add XAUI and 10GBASE-KR PHY connection types

XAUI allows XGMII to reach an extended distance by using a XGXS layer at
each end of the MAC to PHY link, operating over four Serdes lanes.

10GBASE-KR is a single lane Serdes backplane ethernet connection method
with autonegotiation on the link. Some PHYs use this to connect to the
ethernet interface at 10G speeds, switching to other connection types
when utilising slower speeds.

10GBASE-KR is also used for XFI and SFI to connect to XFP and SFP fiber
modules.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 55601a88 04-Feb-2017 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

net: phy: Add 2000base-x, 2500base-x and rxaui modes

The mv88e6390 ports 9 and 10 supports some additional PHY modes. Add
these modes to the PHY core so they can be used in the binding.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# e5f3a4a5 25-Nov-2016 Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>

Documentation: devicetree: clarify usage of the RGMII phy-modes

RGMII requires special RX and/or TX delays depending on the actual
hardware circuit/wiring. These delays can be added by the MAC, the PHY
or the designer of the circuit (the latter means that no delay has to
be added by PHY or MAC).
There are 4 RGMII phy-modes used describe where a delay should be
applied:
- rgmii: the RX and TX delays are either added by the MAC (where the
exact delay is typically configurable, and can be turned off when no
extra delay is needed) or not needed at all (because the hardware
wiring adds the delay already). The PHY should neither add the RX nor
TX delay in this case.
- rgmii-rxid: configures the PHY to enable the RX delay. The MAC should
not add the RX delay in this case.
- rgmii-txid: configures the PHY to enable the TX delay. The MAC should
not add the TX delay in this case.
- rgmii-id: combines rgmii-rxid and rgmii-txid and thus configures the
PHY to enable the RX and TX delays. The MAC should neither add the RX
nor TX delay in this case.

Document these cases in the ethernet.txt documentation to make it clear
when to use each mode.
If applied incorrectly one might end up with MAC and PHY both enabling
for example the TX delay, which breaks ethernet TX traffic on 1000Mbit/s
links.

Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 4ce4862a 23-Sep-2016 Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>

Documentation: devicetree: revise ethernet device-tree binding about TRGMII

add phy-mode "trgmii" to
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt

Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 4cba5c21 20-Jul-2015 Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>

of_mdio: add new DT property 'managed' to specify the PHY management type

Currently the PHY management type is selected by the MAC driver arbitrary.
The decision is based on the presence of the "fixed-link" node and on a
will of the driver's authors.
This caused a regression recently, when mvneta driver suddenly started
to use the in-band status for auto-negotiation on fixed links.
It appears the auto-negotiation may not work when expected by the MAC driver.
Sebastien Rannou explains:
<< Yes, I confirm that my HW does not generate an in-band status. AFAIK, it's
a PHY that aggregates 4xSGMIIs to 1xQSGMII ; the MAC side of the PHY (with
inband status) is connected to the switch through QSGMII, and in this context
we are on the media side of the PHY. >>
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/10/206

This patch introduces the new string property 'managed' that allows
the user to set the management type explicitly.
The supported values are:
"auto" - default. Uses either MDIO or nothing, depending on the presence
of the fixed-link node
"in-band-status" - use in-band status

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@users.sourceforge.net>

CC: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
CC: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
CC: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>
CC: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
CC: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
CC: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
CC: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 13967f0c 15-Apr-2015 Vince Bridgers <vbridger@opensource.altera.com>

stmmac: Add properties for transmit and receive fifo sizes

The Synopsys stmmac fifo sizes are configurable, and need to be known
in order to configure certain controller features. This patch adds
tx-fifo-depth and rx-fifo-depth properties to the stmmac document
file.

Signed-off-by: Vince Bridgers <vbridger@opensource.altera.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# b9d12085 15-Apr-2014 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

net: phy: add minimal support for QSGMII PHY

This commit adds the necessary definitions for the PHY layer to
recognize "qsgmii" as a valid PHY interface. A QSMII interface, as
defined at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Independent_Interface#Quad_Serial_Gigabit_Media_Independent_Interface,
is "is a method of combining four SGMII lines into a 5Gbit/s
interface. QSGMII, like SGMII, uses LVDS signalling for the TX and RX
data and a single LVDS clock signal. QSGMII uses significantly fewer
signal lines than four SGMII busses."

This type of MAC <-> PHY connection might require special handling on
the MAC driver side, so it should be possible to express this type of
MAC <-> PHY connection, for example in the Device Tree.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# e8f08ee0 17-Feb-2014 Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>

DT: net: document Ethernet bindings in one place

This patch is an attempt to gather the Ethernet related bindings in one file,
like it's done in the MMC and some other subsystems. It should save some of
the trouble of documenting several properties over and over in each binding
document, instead only making reference to the main file.

I have used the Embedded Power Architecture(TM) Platform Requirements (ePAPR)
standard as a base for the properties description, also documenting some ad-hoc
properties that have been introduced over time despite having direct analogs in
ePAPR.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>