[meta-freescale] Kernel 3.10.53 can't set ENET_REF_CLK to 50 MHz

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Gary,

On 05/11/2015 04:17 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2015-05-11 07:09, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>> Hi gang,
>>
>> While porting kernel 3.10.53 to an imx6d-based board, I stumbled upon
>> the following issue - my board has a 100 MBit/s RMII PHY which needs 50
>> MHz reference clock from the SOC, but during the kernel initialization
>> the clock is configured as 125 MHz (observed with a oscilloscope on a
>> test pad). The reference clock is sent from pin GPIO_16 to the PHY.
>>
>> I assume there's no hardware issue with the board, as the old kernel
>> 3.10.17 works fine on the same board. Also U-Boot successfully
>> downloads the 3.10.53 kernel via network, just before observing the
>> fore-mentioned issue.
>>
>> Here are the relevant parts of my DT:
>>
>>
>> &fec {
>>      pinctrl-names = "default";
>>      pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_enet_4>;
>>      phy-mode = "rmii";
>>      phy-reset-gpios = <&gpio4 5 0>;
>>      phy-reset-duration = <1>;
>>      status = "okay";
>> };
>>
>> &iomuxc {
>>      pinctrl-names = "default";
>>      pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_hog_1>;
>>
>>      enet {
>>          pinctrl_enet_4: enetgrp-4 {
>>              fsl,pins = <
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_GPIO_16__ENET_REF_CLK    0x4001b0a8
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_MDIO__ENET_MDIO        0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_MDC__ENET_MDC        0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_TXD0__ENET_TX_DATA0    0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_TXD1__ENET_TX_DATA1    0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_TX_EN__ENET_TX_EN    0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_RXD0__ENET_RX_DATA0    0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_RXD1__ENET_RX_DATA1    0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_RX_ER__ENET_RX_ER    0x1b0b0
>>                  MX6QDL_PAD_ENET_CRS_DV__ENET_RX_EN    0x1b0b0
>>              >;
>>          };
>>      };
>> };
>>
>>
>> Here's a bootlog extract that shows the FEC-related messages:
>>
>>
>> ...
>> libphy: fec_enet_mii_bus: probed
>> fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: registered PHC device 0
>> ...
>> fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [SMSC
>> LAN8710/LAN8720] (mii_bus:phy_addr=2188000.ethernet:01, irq
>> =-1)
>> IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>> Waiting up to 110 more seconds for network.
>> ...
>>
>>
>> In general, I'm looking at the appropriate way to set the
>> CCM_ANALOG_PLL_ENET.DIV_SELECT to 50 MHz.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your comments. Regards,
>> Nikolay
>
> Here's how I solved this - I added a "ref-clock" property to
> my fec node and set it to 50MHz.

That nailed it, thanks a lot!

Regards,
Nikolay