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net: bcmgenet: Workaround #2 for Pi4 Ethernet fail
Some combinations of Pi 4Bs and Ethernet switches don't reliably get a DCHP-assigned IP address, leaving the unit with a self=assigned 169.254 address. In the failure case, the Pi is left able to receive packets but not send them, suggesting that the MAC<->PHY link is getting into a bad state. It has been found empirically that skipping a reset step by the genet driver prevents the failures. No downsides have been discovered yet, and unlike the forced renegotiation it doesn't increase the time to get an IP address, so the workaround is enabled by default; add genet.skip_umac_reset=n to the command line to disable it. See: #3108 Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <[email protected]>
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Diff for: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c

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/* Forward declarations */
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static void bcmgenet_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev);
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static bool skip_umac_reset = true;
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module_param(skip_umac_reset, bool, 0444);
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MODULE_PARM_DESC(skip_umac_reset, "Skip UMAC reset step");
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static inline void bcmgenet_writel(u32 value, void __iomem *offset)
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{
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bcmgenet_rbuf_ctrl_set(priv, 0);
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udelay(10);
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if (skip_umac_reset) {
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pr_warn("Skipping UMAC reset\n");
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return;
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}
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/* issue soft reset and disable MAC while updating its registers */
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spin_lock_bh(&priv->reg_lock);
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bcmgenet_umac_writel(priv, CMD_SW_RESET, UMAC_CMD);

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