Arge1 link status is not updated

[Adrian Chadd]

The second port doesn't have a link status per se. It's connected to the
AR8316 switch PHY.

Use etherswitchcfg to see the link status of the child switch ports.



-adrian



On 23 August 2013 13:28, Pham Viet Ha <hapvbk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am running nanobsd on a MIPS platform, which is an AR7161 CPU with
> AR8316 switch. Both arge interfaces show up however the link status is not
> correctly updated.
>
> arge1 (the WAN interface) always show active, even there is no ethernet
> cable plugged in.
>
> In a post, Adrian mentioned this (
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-embedded/2013-July/001871.html
> ):
>
> Then arge1 is glued to this "WAN" PHY. It's not owned by arswitch (but
> it could be!) as then arge1 couldn't link to it to get notifications
> about link, speed/duplex changes.
>
> My question is how can we make arge1 update its link status (no
> carrier/active) when the link is disconnected/connected?
>
> Should it be in arge driver or in the switch driver?
>
> At this time I compiled and load the switch in a separated module.
>
>
> The log from boot:
> argemdio0: <Atheros AR71xx built-in ethernet interface, MDIO controller>
> at mem 0x19000000-0x19000fff on nexus0
> mdio0: <MDIO> on argemdio0
> mdioproxy0: <MII/MDIO proxy, MDIO side> on mdio0
> arge0: <Atheros AR71xx built-in ethernet interface> at mem
> 0x19000000-0x19000fff irq 2 on nexus0
> arge0: Overriding MAC from EEPROM
> arge0: arge_attach: overriding MII mode to 'RGMII'
> arge0: sc->arge_mac_unit 0 phymask 15
> arge0: finishing attachment, phymask 000f, proxy null
> miibus0: <MII bus> on arge0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
> ukphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
> ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> ukphy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
> ukphy2: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 2 on miibus0
> ukphy2:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
> ukphy3: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 3 on miibus0
> ukphy3:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
> arge0: Ethernet address: 00:03:7f:12:20:00
> arge1: <Atheros AR71xx built-in ethernet interface> at mem
> 0x1a000000-0x1a000fff irq 3 on nexus0
> arge1: arge_attach: overriding MII mode to 'RGMII'
> arge1: sc->arge_mac_unit 1 phymask 16
> arge1: finishing attachment, phymask 0010, proxy null
> arge1: No PHY, use hard-coded values: arge_multiphy_mediachange,
> arge_multiphy_mediastatus.
> arge1: Ethernet address: 00:03:7f:12:20:01
>
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Viet-Ha Pham
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