Re: [PATCH] ftgmac100: Disable HW checksum generation on AST2500

[Vijay Khemka]

ïOn 9/10/19, 3:05 PM, "Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    On 9/10/19 2:37 PM, Vijay Khemka wrote:
    > HW checksum generation is not working for AST2500, specially with IPV6
    > over NCSI. All TCP packets with IPv6 get dropped. By disabling this
    > it works perfectly fine with IPV6.
    > 
    > Verified with IPV6 enabled and can do ssh.
    
    How about IPv4, do these packets have problem? If not, can you continue
    advertising NETIF_F_IP_CSUM but take out NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM?

Yes IPv4 works. Let me test with your suggestion and will update patch.
    
    > 
    > Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@xxxxxx>
    > ---
    >  drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 5 +++--
    >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
    > 
    > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
    > index 030fed65393e..591c9725002b 100644
    > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
    > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
    > @@ -1839,8 +1839,9 @@ static int ftgmac100_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
    >  	if (priv->use_ncsi)
    >  		netdev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER;
    >  
    > -	/* AST2400  doesn't have working HW checksum generation */
    > -	if (np && (of_device_is_compatible(np, "aspeed,ast2400-mac")))
    > +	/* AST2400  and AST2500 doesn't have working HW checksum generation */
    > +	if (np && (of_device_is_compatible(np, "aspeed,ast2400-mac") ||
    > +		   of_device_is_compatible(np, "aspeed,ast2500-mac")))
    >  		netdev->hw_features &= ~NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
    >  	if (np && of_get_property(np, "no-hw-checksum", NULL))
    >  		netdev->hw_features &= ~(NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM);
    > 
    
    
    -- 
    Florian