Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] AT8031 PHY timestamping support

[Richard Cochran]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:07:26AM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> Am 26. Februar 2020 00:50:40 MEZ schrieb Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>:
> >That sounds fundamentally broken.

Right.  It can't work unless the PHY latches the time stamp.

> This might be the case, but the datasheet (some older revision can
> be found on the internet, maybe you find something) doesn't mention
> it. Nor does the PTP "guide" (I don't know the exact name, I'd have
> to check at work) of this PHY. Besides the timestamp there's also
> the sequence number and the source port id which would need to be
> read atomically together with the timestamp.

Maybe the part is not intended to be used at all in this way?

AFAICT, PHYs like this are meant to feed a "PTP frame detected" pulse
into the time stamping unit on the attached MAC.  The interrupt serves
to allow the SW to gather the matching fields from the frame.

Thanks,
Richard