Re: [PATCH 08/12] net: stmmac: Add glue layer for StarFive JH7100 SoC

[Cristian Ciocaltea]

On 2/15/23 13:20, Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 at 01:09, Cristian Ciocaltea
> <cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2/11/23 18:11, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > +#define JH7100_SYSMAIN_REGISTER28 0x70
> > > > +/* The value below is not a typo, just really bad naming by StarFive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ */
> > > > +#define JH7100_SYSMAIN_REGISTER49 0xc8
> > >
> > > Seems like the comment should be one line earlier?
>
> Well yes, the very generic register names are also bad, but this
> comment refers to the fact that it kind of makes sense that register
> 28 has the offset
>    28 * 4 bytes pr. register = 0x70
> ..but then register 49 is oddly out of place at offset 0xc8 instead of
>    49 * 4 bytes pr. register = 0xc4
>
> > > There is value in basing the names on the datasheet, but you could
> > > append something meaningful on the end:
> > >
> > > #define JH7100_SYSMAIN_REGISTER49_DLYCHAIN 0xc8
> >
> > Unfortunately the JH7100 datasheet I have access to doesn't provide any
> > information regarding the SYSCTRL-MAINSYS related registers. Maybe Emil
> > could provide some details here?
>
> This is reverse engineered from the auto generated headers in their u-boot:
> https://github.com/starfive-tech/u-boot/blob/JH7100_VisionFive_devel/arch/riscv/include/asm/arch-jh7100/syscon_sysmain_ctrl_macro.h
>
> Christian, I'm happy that you're working on this, but mess like this
> and waiting for the non-coherent dma to be sorted is why I didn't send
> it upstream yet.

Thank you for clarifying this and for all the work you have done so far, 
Emil! If you don't mind, I would be glad to continue helping with this 
mainlining effort.

> > > > +    if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "starfive,gtxclk-dlychain", &gtxclk_dlychain)) {
> > > > +            ret = regmap_write(sysmain, JH7100_SYSMAIN_REGISTER49, gtxclk_dlychain);
> > > > +            if (ret)
> > > > +                    return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "error selecting gtxclk delay chain\n");
> > > > +    }
> > >
> > > You should probably document that if starfive,gtxclk-dlychain is not
> > > found in the DT blob, the value for the delay chain is undefined.  It
> > > would actually be better to define it, set it to 0 for example. That
> > > way, you know you don't have any dependency on the bootloader for
> > > example.
> >
> > Sure, I will set it to 0.
> >
> > >        Andrew
> >
> > Thanks for reviewing,
> > Cristian
> >
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