On 2025-06-02 11:48, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 10:19:22AM +0300, Ilya K wrote: >> On 2025-01-09 12:15, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:56:17AM +0100, Eric Woudstra wrote: >>> I'll look at what we can do for this today. >> Hey folks, don't really want to necrobump this, but the original hack patch is the only way I can get my weirdo Realtek (noticing a pattern here) GPON modem-on-a-stick to probe at 2500base-x on a BPi-R4. I've actually tracked down the issue myself and wrote basically the same patch first :( Is there anything I can do (with my extremely limited phylink understanding) to help move this forward so other people don't have to suffer like I did? > > There were two issues that were identified. The first was that when in > 2500Base-X mode, the PCS wasn't reporting link-up. That was addressed > by the patch series: > > Z4TbR93B-X8A8iHe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > then, the replacement for Eric's patch was: > > E1tYhxp-001FHf-Ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > So the problem should be solved with these applied, as when the PHY is > attached, "changed" will always be true, which is in effect what Eric's > patch was doing, but in a cleaner way. > > Please confirm that you have all six patches applied. > That's weird, because I do have all the patches applied. I think this may have been broken by the pcs_inband_caps changes, because without the patch I'm just getting "autoneg setting not compatible with PCS", after which it bails, when it should really reconfigure the MAC instead. (resending because I replied instead of reply-all by accident)
