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Daniel Golle ea3d1aeb5d generic: 6.18: provision Aquantia USXGMII system interface
The gen2 and later Aquantia PHYs take their system interface from the
per-speed global configuration words their firmware loads from flash.
Where the board firmware selects XFI with pause-frame rate adaptation,
the driver reports 10GBASE-R as the only possible interface and the MAC
gets throttled by pause frames at every media speed below 10G, although
the device tree asks for USXGMII.

Apart from being ugly, this also causes the PHY's microcontroller to
hang when ever a link-partner enters 100M mode (eg. during S3 idle with
WoL active) and never returns to a working state, observed on CUX3410
running firmware 5.7, ironically even with an Aquantia AQtion AQC107
NIC on the other end (ie. the inter-Aquantia magic between the two
same-vendor PHYs could be the actual root of the problem).

Add a hack patch that rewrites the words to XFI with USX rate
adaptation when phy-mode is usxgmii, with the PHY held in low power as
the existing AQR112/AQR412 patch does. The PHY then runs USXGMII with
symbol replication at the lower speeds (and no longer crashes when
ever the link-partner enters S3 and reduces speed to 100M).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
2026-10-09 10:30:01 +01:00
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