EyeQ5 SoCs integrate two GEM instances. A system-controller register
region named "OLB" has some control over the Ethernet PHY integration.
Past iterations [0] touched those syscon registers directly from MACB.
It was a bad idea. Extend the current OLB ecosystem with a new generic
PHY driver.
- OLB is carried by one main platform driver: clk-eyeq.
- It instantiates auxiliary devices: reset-eyeq & pinctrl-eyeq5.
- We add a new one: phy-eyeq5-eth.
I always find devicetree the simplest way to understand device
interactions, so here is a DT overview:
olb: system-controller@e00000 {
compatible = "mobileye,eyeq5-olb", "syscon";
reg = <0 0xe00000 0x0 0x400>;
// ...
#reset-cells = <2>;
#clock-cells = <1>;
#phy-cells = <1>; // <- this is new
};
macb0: ethernet@2a00000 {
compatible = "mobileye,eyeq5-gem";
phys = <&olb 0>; // <- GEM device consumes the PHY
// ...
};
macb1: ethernet@2b00000 {
compatible = "mobileye,eyeq5-gem";
phys = <&olb 1>; // <- same thing for the second instance
// ...
};
The Linux MACB driver already consumes a generic PHY for some other
compatibles, this is nothing new. The MACB series [1] has been merged
in v6.19-rc1.
--
About merging, Philipp Zabel gave his ACK for [5/7] to go into
linux-clk. The split is:
- [PATCH 1/7] dt-bindings: soc: mobileye: OLB is an Ethernet PHY provider on EyeQ5
[PATCH 6/7] MIPS: mobileye: eyeq5: add two Cadence GEM Ethernet controllers
[PATCH 7/7] MIPS: mobileye: eyeq5-epm: add two Cadence GEM Ethernet PHYs
=> linux-mips
- [PATCH 2/7] phy: Add driver for EyeQ5 Ethernet PHY wrapper
=> linux-phy
- [PATCH 3/7] clk: eyeq: use the auxiliary device creation helper
[PATCH 4/7] clk: eyeq: add EyeQ5 children auxiliary device for generic PHYs
[PATCH 5/7] reset: eyeq: drop device_set_of_node_from_dev() done by parent
=> linux-clk
Have a nice day,
Thanks!
Théo
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250627-macb-v2-15-ff8207d0bb77@bootlin.com/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251022-macb-eyeq5-v2-0-7c140abb0581@bootlin.com/
Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- phy-eyeq5-eth:
- fix #includes: add delay, gfp_types, module and drop array_size,
bug, cleanup, container_of, lockdep, mutex.
- eq5_phy_xlate(): avoid magic value, use EQ5_PHY_COUNT.
- use dev_err_probe() in error cases of devm_phy_create() and
devm_of_phy_provider_register().
- 3x Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli.
- Add Neil Armstrong to Cc as new PHY subsystem reviewer.
- Rebase on v6.19-rc1, tested on hardware, no changes.
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251124-macb-phy-v4-0-955c625a81a7@bootlin.com
Changes in v4:
- Append my SoB to Jerome's patch:
[PATCH v4 3/7] clk: eyeq: use the auxiliary device creation helper
- Rebase on net-next & linux-{clk,mips,phy}. Nothing to report.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119-macb-phy-v3-0-e9a7be186a33@bootlin.com
Changes in v3:
- Take Philipp Zabel's Reviewed-by & Acked-by trailers on reset patch.
- Take Thomas Bogendoerfer's two Acked-by trailers on DT patches.
- Rebase on net-next & test on target. Nothing to report.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251101-macb-phy-v2-0-c1519eef16d3@bootlin.com
Changes in v2:
- Take Acked-by: Conor Dooley on dt-bindings-patch.
- s/%ld/%tu/ for printing ptrdiff_t; warnings on 32-bit archs.
Reported by NIPA's netdev/build_32bit test.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20251021-macb-eyeq5-v1-7-3b0b5a9d2f85@bootlin.com/
https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/static/nipa/1014126/14277857/build_32bit/stderr
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251022-macb-phy-v1-0-f29f28fae721@bootlin.com
Changes since MACB V1:
- Drop the old "mobileye,olb" properties from DT patches; found while
running dtbs_check and dt_binding_check.
- Drop all patches targeting net-next. That is MACB dt-bindings patch
and MACB driver code. See there here [1].
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251021-macb-eyeq5-v1-0-3b0b5a9d2f85@bootlin.com/
Past versions of MACB patches:
- March 2025: [PATCH net-next 00/13] Support the Cadence MACB/GEM
instances on Mobileye EyeQ5 SoCs
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250321-macb-v1-0-537b7e37971d@bootlin.com/
- June 2025: [PATCH net-next v2 00/18] Support the Cadence MACB/GEM
instances on Mobileye EyeQ5 SoCs
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250627-macb-v2-0-ff8207d0bb77@bootlin.com/
- August 2025: [PATCH net v3 00/16] net: macb: various fixes & cleanup
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250808-macb-fixes-v3-0-08f1fcb5179f@bootlin.com/
---
Jerome Brunet (1):
clk: eyeq: use the auxiliary device creation helper
Théo Lebrun (6):
dt-bindings: soc: mobileye: OLB is an Ethernet PHY provider on EyeQ5
phy: Add driver for EyeQ5 Ethernet PHY wrapper
clk: eyeq: add EyeQ5 children auxiliary device for generic PHYs
reset: eyeq: drop device_set_of_node_from_dev() done by parent
MIPS: mobileye: eyeq5: add two Cadence GEM Ethernet controllers
MIPS: mobileye: eyeq5-epm: add two Cadence GEM Ethernet PHYs
.../bindings/soc/mobileye/mobileye,eyeq5-olb.yaml | 7 +-
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
arch/mips/boot/dts/mobileye/eyeq5-epm5.dts | 26 +++
arch/mips/boot/dts/mobileye/eyeq5.dtsi | 45 ++++
drivers/clk/clk-eyeq.c | 60 ++---
drivers/phy/Kconfig | 13 ++
drivers/phy/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/phy/phy-eyeq5-eth.c | 249 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/reset/reset-eyeq.c | 24 +-
9 files changed, 358 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 8f0b4cce4481fb22653697cced8d0d04027cb1e8
change-id: 20251022-macb-phy-21bc4e1dfbb7
Best regards,
--
Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>