Bug 1180216

Summary:	LX2160A Networking not supported
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Josua Mayer <josua.m>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Yousaf Kaukab <yousaf.kaukab>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	guillaume.gardet, mbrugger, tiwai, yousaf.kaukab
Version:	Leap 15.2
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Hardware:	aarch64
OS:	Other
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Description Josua Mayer 2020-12-18 13:41:21 UTC

With either DeviceTree and ACPI hardware description, both on-SoC 1gbps ethernet and 10gbps sfp+ are not currently supported on the Honeycomb Workstation with Leap 15.2.

This is mostly because the upstreaming of required support into Linux is still ongoing and taking much time.
I'd like to evaluate if it will be possible to either backport some recent enablements into 15.2, or work towards the next release of Leap.

The current state is this pile of patches on top of v5.10.1: https://github.com/SolidRun/linux-stable/commits/linux-5.10.y-cex7
Clearly it might be a lot to back-port, especially considering the pile will only grow going back to 5.3 ....

Any suggestions if or how to proceed here? Is SUSE tracking this already internally?

Comment 1 Yousaf Kaukab 2021-01-07 08:42:44 UTC

Please attach your DPC settings. 

Please try changing the link_type of the MAC you are using to  MAC_LINK_TYPE_FIXED in DPC.

Comment 2 Josua Mayer 2021-01-12 09:39:28 UTC

DPC is embedded in firmware (acpi).
What's then needed as a bare minimum is access to the mcbin for setting up interfaces with NXPs restool, e.g. sudo ls-addni dpmac.9
This part currently requires additional patches to Linux not yet mainline :(

There are also patches for configuring the 1gbps interface from ACPI tables which need to be carried. From my sources what's been taking so long is the standardization of mdio in acpi - which apparently - was new.

The device-tree story may be different in that I was clearly testing it wrong.
I should be using U-Boot but did not, so there is a chance that something actually works contrary to my testing.

Any comments to possible paths from here?
Is SUSE aware of the network ports functioning on Honeycomb in any configuration?

Comment 3 Yousaf Kaukab 2021-01-13 09:43:01 UTC

(In reply to Josua Mayer from comment #2)
> DPC is embedded in firmware (acpi).
ACPI is not fully supported. Switch hardware description to device-tree if you want to use EDK2 based firmware.

> What's then needed as a bare minimum is access to the mcbin for setting up
> interfaces with NXPs restool, e.g. sudo ls-addni dpmac.9
> This part currently requires additional patches to Linux not yet mainline :(
> 
> There are also patches for configuring the 1gbps interface from ACPI tables
> which need to be carried. From my sources what's been taking so long is the
> standardization of mdio in acpi - which apparently - was new.
> 
> The device-tree story may be different in that I was clearly testing it
> wrong.
> I should be using U-Boot but did not, so there is a chance that something
> actually works contrary to my testing.
> 
> Any comments to possible paths from here?
Try following kernel:
https://kernel.suse.com/SLE15-SP3.html

> Is SUSE aware of the network ports functioning on Honeycomb in any
> configuration?
Sorry I don't have access to this hardware.

Comment 4 Yousaf Kaukab 2021-05-03 10:30:54 UTC

Please reopen if you are still facing this issue.