[RFC PATCH 6/6] arm64: dts: amlogic: t7: khadas-vim4: enable the ethernet port

From: Lucas Tanure <tanure@linux.com>
To: xianwei.zhao@amlogic.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
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	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
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Subject: [RFC PATCH 6/6] arm64: dts: amlogic: t7: khadas-vim4: enable the ethernet port
Date: Sun,  4 Oct 2026 15:40:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261004144046.391444-7-tanure@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261004144046.391444-1-tanure@linux.com>

The board carries a Realtek RTL8211F gigabit PHY on the external
management bus, connected to the MAC over RGMII.

Enable the controller, hand it the ethernet pins and point it at the
PHY. The clock delays RGMII needs are supplied by the MAC rather than
the PHY: 2ns on transmit and 2000ps on receive, the values the vendor
kernel programs.

The PHY interrupt output is wired to GPIOH_6, so describe it and let
link changes be reported instead of polled. The PHY reset pin is driven
by an RC network on the board, not by the SoC, so there is no reset line
to describe.

Tested at 930Mbit/s sustained receive over a minute, with no MAC error
counters moving in either direction.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Lucas Tanure <tanure@linux.com>
---
 .../amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts | 28 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts
index 0fa83362b417..5d0365ddde72 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ / {
 	compatible = "khadas,vim4", "amlogic,a311d2", "amlogic,t7";
 
 	aliases {
+		ethernet0 = &ethmac;
 		serial0 = &uart_a;
 		mmc0 = &sd_emmc_c;
 		mmc1 = &sd_emmc_b;
@@ -256,6 +257,33 @@ xtal: xtal-clk {
 	};
 };
 
+&ethmac {
+	status = "okay";
+	pinctrl-0 = <&eth_pins>, <&eth_rgmii_pins>;
+	pinctrl-names = "default";
+
+	/*
+	 * The RGMII clock delays are added by the MAC, so the PHY is
+	 * asked for the mode that adds none.
+	 */
+	phy-mode = "rgmii";
+	phy-handle = <&external_phy>;
+	amlogic,tx-delay-ns = <2>;
+	rx-internal-delay-ps = <2000>;
+};
+
+&ext_mdio {
+	external_phy: ethernet-phy@0 {
+		/* Realtek RTL8211FD-CG */
+		reg = <0>;
+		max-speed = <1000>;
+
+		interrupt-parent = <&gpio_intc>;
+		/* RGMII_INT on GPIOH_6 */
+		interrupts = <154 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
+	};
+};
+
 &i2c_m_ao_a {
 	status = "okay";
 	pinctrl-0 = <&i2c0_ao_d_pins>;
-- 
2.56.0


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