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3=========================================================================
4OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY Serial Interface (TC6) Framework Support
5=========================================================================
6
7Introduction
8------------
9
10The IEEE 802.3cg project defines two 10 Mbit/s PHYs operating over a
11single pair of conductors. The 10BASE-T1L (Clause 146) is a long reach
12PHY supporting full duplex point-to-point operation over 1 km of single
13balanced pair of conductors. The 10BASE-T1S (Clause 147) is a short reach
14PHY supporting full / half duplex point-to-point operation over 15 m of
15single balanced pair of conductors, or half duplex multidrop bus
16operation over 25 m of single balanced pair of conductors.
17
18Furthermore, the IEEE 802.3cg project defines the new Physical Layer
19Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (Clause 148) meant to
20provide improved determinism to the CSMA/CD media access method. PLCA
21works in conjunction with the 10BASE-T1S PHY operating in multidrop mode.
22
23The aforementioned PHYs are intended to cover the low-speed / low-cost
24applications in industrial and automotive environment. The large number
25of pins (16) required by the MII interface, which is specified by the
26IEEE 802.3 in Clause 22, is one of the major cost factors that need to be
27addressed to fulfil this objective.
28
29The MAC-PHY solution integrates an IEEE Clause 4 MAC and a 10BASE-T1x PHY
30exposing a low pin count Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) to the host
31microcontroller. This also enables the addition of Ethernet functionality
32to existing low-end microcontrollers which do not integrate a MAC
33controller.
34
35Overview
36--------
37
38The MAC-PHY is specified to carry both data (Ethernet frames) and control
39(register access) transactions over a single full-duplex serial peripheral
40interface.
41
42Protocol Overview
43-----------------
44
45Two types of transactions are defined in the protocol: data transactions
46for Ethernet frame transfers and control transactions for register
47read/write transfers. A chunk is the basic element of data transactions
48and is composed of 4 bytes of overhead plus 64 bytes of payload size for
49each chunk. Ethernet frames are transferred over one or more data chunks.
50Control transactions consist of one or more register read/write control
51commands.
52
53SPI transactions are initiated by the SPI host with the assertion of CSn
54low to the MAC-PHY and ends with the deassertion of CSn high. In between
55each SPI transaction, the SPI host may need time for additional
56processing and to setup the next SPI data or control transaction.
57
58SPI data transactions consist of an equal number of transmit (TX) and
59receive (RX) chunks. Chunks in both transmit and receive directions may
60or may not contain valid frame data independent from each other, allowing
61for the simultaneous transmission and reception of different length
62frames.
63
64Each transmit data chunk begins with a 32-bit data header followed by a
65data chunk payload on MOSI. The data header indicates whether transmit
66frame data is present and provides the information to determine which
67bytes of the payload contain valid frame data.
68
69In parallel, receive data chunks are received on MISO. Each receive data
70chunk consists of a data chunk payload ending with a 32-bit data footer.
71The data footer indicates if there is receive frame data present within
72the payload or not and provides the information to determine which bytes
73of the payload contain valid frame data.
74
75Reference
76---------
77
7810BASE-T1x MAC-PHY Serial Interface Specification,
79
80Link: https://opensig.org/download/document/OPEN_Alliance_10BASET1x_MAC-PHY_Serial_Interface_V1.1.pdf
81
82Hardware Architecture
83---------------------
84
85.. code-block:: none
86
87  +----------+      +-------------------------------------+
88  |          |      |                MAC-PHY              |
89  |          |<---->| +-----------+  +-------+  +-------+ |
90  | SPI Host |      | | SPI Slave |  |  MAC  |  |  PHY  | |
91  |          |      | +-----------+  +-------+  +-------+ |
92  +----------+      +-------------------------------------+
93
94Software Architecture
95---------------------
96
97.. code-block:: none
98
99  +----------------------------------------------------------+
100  |                 Networking Subsystem                     |
101  +----------------------------------------------------------+
102            / \                             / \
103             |                               |
104             |                               |
105            \ /                              |
106  +----------------------+     +-----------------------------+
107  |     MAC Driver       |<--->| OPEN Alliance TC6 Framework |
108  +----------------------+     +-----------------------------+
109            / \                             / \
110             |                               |
111             |                               |
112             |                              \ /
113  +----------------------------------------------------------+
114  |                    SPI Subsystem                         |
115  +----------------------------------------------------------+
116                          / \
117                           |
118                           |
119                          \ /
120  +----------------------------------------------------------+
121  |                10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY Device                 |
122  +----------------------------------------------------------+
123
124Implementation
125--------------
126
127MAC Driver
128~~~~~~~~~~
129
130- Probed by SPI subsystem.
131
132- Initializes OA TC6 framework for the MAC-PHY.
133
134- Registers and configures the network device.
135
136- Sends the tx ethernet frames from n/w subsystem to OA TC6 framework.
137
138OPEN Alliance TC6 Framework
139~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
140
141- Initializes PHYLIB interface.
142
143- Registers mac-phy interrupt.
144
145- Performs mac-phy register read/write operation using the control
146  transaction protocol specified in the OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY
147  Serial Interface specification.
148
149- Performs Ethernet frames transaction using the data transaction protocol
150  for Ethernet frames specified in the OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY
151  Serial Interface specification.
152
153- Forwards the received Ethernet frame from 10Base-T1x MAC-PHY to n/w
154  subsystem.
155
156Data Transaction
157~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
158
159The Ethernet frames that are typically transferred from the SPI host to
160the MAC-PHY will be converted into multiple transmit data chunks. Each
161transmit data chunk will have a 4 bytes header which contains the
162information needed to determine the validity and the location of the
163transmit frame data within the 64 bytes data chunk payload.
164
165.. code-block:: none
166
167  +---------------------------------------------------+
168  |                     Tx Chunk                      |
169  | +---------------------------+  +----------------+ |   MOSI
170  | | 64 bytes chunk payload    |  | 4 bytes header | |------------>
171  | +---------------------------+  +----------------+ |
172  +---------------------------------------------------+
173
1744 bytes header contains the below fields,
175
176DNC (Bit 31) - Data-Not-Control flag. This flag specifies the type of SPI
177               transaction. For TX data chunks, this bit shall be ’1’.
178               0 - Control command
179               1 - Data chunk
180
181SEQ (Bit 30) - Data Chunk Sequence. This bit is used to indicate an
182               even/odd transmit data chunk sequence to the MAC-PHY.
183
184NORX (Bit 29) - No Receive flag. The SPI host may set this bit to prevent
185                the MAC-PHY from conveying RX data on the MISO for the
186                current chunk (DV = 0 in the footer), indicating that the
187                host would not process it. Typically, the SPI host should
188                set NORX = 0 indicating that it will accept and process
189                any receive frame data within the current chunk.
190
191RSVD (Bit 28..24) - Reserved: All reserved bits shall be ‘0’.
192
193VS (Bit 23..22) - Vendor Specific. These bits are implementation specific.
194                  If the MAC-PHY does not implement these bits, the host
195                  shall set them to ‘0’.
196
197DV (Bit 21) - Data Valid flag. The SPI host uses this bit to indicate
198              whether the current chunk contains valid transmit frame data
199              (DV = 1) or not (DV = 0). When ‘0’, the MAC-PHY ignores the
200              chunk payload. Note that the receive path is unaffected by
201              the setting of the DV bit in the data header.
202
203SV (Bit 20) - Start Valid flag. The SPI host shall set this bit when the
204              beginning of an Ethernet frame is present in the current
205              transmit data chunk payload. Otherwise, this bit shall be
206              zero. This bit is not to be confused with the Start-of-Frame
207              Delimiter (SFD) byte described in IEEE 802.3 [2].
208
209SWO (Bit 19..16) - Start Word Offset. When SV = 1, this field shall
210                   contain the 32-bit word offset into the transmit data
211                   chunk payload that points to the start of a new
212                   Ethernet frame to be transmitted. The host shall write
213                   this field as zero when SV = 0.
214
215RSVD (Bit 15) - Reserved: All reserved bits shall be ‘0’.
216
217EV (Bit 14) - End Valid flag. The SPI host shall set this bit when the end
218              of an Ethernet frame is present in the current transmit data
219              chunk payload. Otherwise, this bit shall be zero.
220
221EBO (Bit 13..8) - End Byte Offset. When EV = 1, this field shall contain
222                  the byte offset into the transmit data chunk payload
223                  that points to the last byte of the Ethernet frame to
224                  transmit. This field shall be zero when EV = 0.
225
226TSC (Bit 7..6) - Timestamp Capture. Request a timestamp capture when the
227                 frame is transmitted onto the network.
228                 00 - Do not capture a timestamp
229                 01 - Capture timestamp into timestamp capture register A
230                 10 - Capture timestamp into timestamp capture register B
231                 11 - Capture timestamp into timestamp capture register C
232
233RSVD (Bit 5..1) - Reserved: All reserved bits shall be ‘0’.
234
235P (Bit 0) - Parity. Parity bit calculated over the transmit data header.
236            Method used is odd parity.
237
238The number of buffers available in the MAC-PHY to store the incoming
239transmit data chunk payloads is represented as transmit credits. The
240available transmit credits in the MAC-PHY can be read either from the
241Buffer Status Register or footer (Refer below for the footer info)
242received from the MAC-PHY. The SPI host should not write more data chunks
243than the available transmit credits as this will lead to transmit buffer
244overflow error.
245
246In case the previous data footer had no transmit credits available and
247once the transmit credits become available for transmitting transmit data
248chunks, the MAC-PHY interrupt is asserted to SPI host. On reception of the
249first data header this interrupt will be deasserted and the received
250footer for the first data chunk will have the transmit credits available
251information.
252
253The Ethernet frames that are typically transferred from MAC-PHY to SPI
254host will be sent as multiple receive data chunks. Each receive data
255chunk will have 64 bytes of data chunk payload followed by 4 bytes footer
256which contains the information needed to determine the validity and the
257location of the receive frame data within the 64 bytes data chunk payload.
258
259.. code-block:: none
260
261  +---------------------------------------------------+
262  |                     Rx Chunk                      |
263  | +----------------+  +---------------------------+ |   MISO
264  | | 4 bytes footer |  | 64 bytes chunk payload    | |------------>
265  | +----------------+  +---------------------------+ |
266  +---------------------------------------------------+
267
2684 bytes footer contains the below fields,
269
270EXST (Bit 31) - Extended Status. This bit is set when any bit in the
271                STATUS0 or STATUS1 registers are set and not masked.
272
273HDRB (Bit 30) - Received Header Bad. When set, indicates that the MAC-PHY
274                received a control or data header with a parity error.
275
276SYNC (Bit 29) - Configuration Synchronized flag. This bit reflects the
277                state of the SYNC bit in the CONFIG0 configuration
278                register (see Table 12). A zero indicates that the MAC-PHY
279                configuration may not be as expected by the SPI host.
280                Following configuration, the SPI host sets the
281                corresponding bitin the configuration register which is
282                reflected in this field.
283
284RCA (Bit 28..24) - Receive Chunks Available. The RCA field indicates to
285                   the SPI host the minimum number of additional receive
286                   data chunks of frame data that are available for
287                   reading beyond the current receive data chunk. This
288                   field is zero when there is no receive frame data
289                   pending in the MAC-PHY’s buffer for reading.
290
291VS (Bit 23..22) - Vendor Specific. These bits are implementation specific.
292                  If not implemented, the MAC-PHY shall set these bits to
293                  ‘0’.
294
295DV (Bit 21) - Data Valid flag. The MAC-PHY uses this bit to indicate
296              whether the current receive data chunk contains valid
297              receive frame data (DV = 1) or not (DV = 0). When ‘0’, the
298              SPI host shall ignore the chunk payload.
299
300SV (Bit 20) - Start Valid flag. The MAC-PHY sets this bit when the current
301              chunk payload contains the start of an Ethernet frame.
302              Otherwise, this bit is zero. The SV bit is not to be
303              confused with the Start-of-Frame Delimiter (SFD) byte
304              described in IEEE 802.3 [2].
305
306SWO (Bit 19..16) - Start Word Offset. When SV = 1, this field contains the
307                   32-bit word offset into the receive data chunk payload
308                   containing the first byte of a new received Ethernet
309                   frame. When a receive timestamp has been added to the
310                   beginning of the received Ethernet frame (RTSA = 1)
311                   then SWO points to the most significant byte of the
312                   timestamp. This field will be zero when SV = 0.
313
314FD (Bit 15) - Frame Drop. When set, this bit indicates that the MAC has
315              detected a condition for which the SPI host should drop the
316              received Ethernet frame. This bit is only valid at the end
317              of a received Ethernet frame (EV = 1) and shall be zero at
318              all other times.
319
320EV (Bit 14) - End Valid flag. The MAC-PHY sets this bit when the end of a
321              received Ethernet frame is present in this receive data
322              chunk payload.
323
324EBO (Bit 13..8) - End Byte Offset: When EV = 1, this field contains the
325                  byte offset into the receive data chunk payload that
326                  locates the last byte of the received Ethernet frame.
327                  This field is zero when EV = 0.
328
329RTSA (Bit 7) - Receive Timestamp Added. This bit is set when a 32-bit or
330               64-bit timestamp has been added to the beginning of the
331               received Ethernet frame. The MAC-PHY shall set this bit to
332               zero when SV = 0.
333
334RTSP (Bit 6) - Receive Timestamp Parity. Parity bit calculated over the
335               32-bit/64-bit timestamp added to the beginning of the
336               received Ethernet frame. Method used is odd parity. The
337               MAC-PHY shall set this bit to zero when RTSA = 0.
338
339TXC (Bit 5..1) - Transmit Credits. This field contains the minimum number
340                 of transmit data chunks of frame data that the SPI host
341                 can write in a single transaction without incurring a
342                 transmit buffer overflow error.
343
344P (Bit 0) - Parity. Parity bit calculated over the receive data footer.
345            Method used is odd parity.
346
347SPI host will initiate the data receive transaction based on the receive
348chunks available in the MAC-PHY which is provided in the receive chunk
349footer (RCA - Receive Chunks Available). SPI host will create data invalid
350transmit data chunks (empty chunks) or data valid transmit data chunks in
351case there are valid Ethernet frames to transmit to the MAC-PHY. The
352receive chunks available in MAC-PHY can be read either from the Buffer
353Status Register or footer.
354
355In case the previous data footer had no receive data chunks available and
356once the receive data chunks become available again for reading, the
357MAC-PHY interrupt is asserted to SPI host. On reception of the first data
358header this interrupt will be deasserted and the received footer for the
359first data chunk will have the receive chunks available information.
360
361MAC-PHY Interrupt
362~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
363
364The MAC-PHY interrupt is asserted when the following conditions are met.
365
366Receive chunks available - This interrupt is asserted when the previous
367data footer had no receive data chunks available and once the receive
368data chunks become available for reading. On reception of the first data
369header this interrupt will be deasserted.
370
371Transmit chunk credits available - This interrupt is asserted when the
372previous data footer indicated no transmit credits available and once the
373transmit credits become available for transmitting transmit data chunks.
374On reception of the first data header this interrupt will be deasserted.
375
376Extended status event - This interrupt is asserted when the previous data
377footer indicated no extended status and once the extended event become
378available. In this case the host should read status #0 register to know
379the corresponding error/event. On reception of the first data header this
380interrupt will be deasserted.
381
382Control Transaction
383~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
384
3854 bytes control header contains the below fields,
386
387DNC (Bit 31) - Data-Not-Control flag. This flag specifies the type of SPI
388               transaction. For control commands, this bit shall be ‘0’.
389               0 - Control command
390               1 - Data chunk
391
392HDRB (Bit 30) - Received Header Bad. When set by the MAC-PHY, indicates
393                that a header was received with a parity error. The SPI
394                host should always clear this bit. The MAC-PHY ignores the
395                HDRB value sent by the SPI host on MOSI.
396
397WNR (Bit 29) - Write-Not-Read. This bit indicates if data is to be written
398               to registers (when set) or read from registers
399               (when clear).
400
401AID (Bit 28) - Address Increment Disable. When clear, the address will be
402               automatically post-incremented by one following each
403               register read or write. When set, address auto increment is
404               disabled allowing successive reads and writes to occur at
405               the same register address.
406
407MMS (Bit 27..24) - Memory Map Selector. This field selects the specific
408                   register memory map to access.
409
410ADDR (Bit 23..8) - Address. Address of the first register within the
411                   selected memory map to access.
412
413LEN (Bit 7..1) - Length. Specifies the number of registers to read/write.
414                 This field is interpreted as the number of registers
415                 minus 1 allowing for up to 128 consecutive registers read
416                 or written starting at the address specified in ADDR. A
417                 length of zero shall read or write a single register.
418
419P (Bit 0) - Parity. Parity bit calculated over the control command header.
420            Method used is odd parity.
421
422Control transactions consist of one or more control commands. Control
423commands are used by the SPI host to read and write registers within the
424MAC-PHY. Each control commands are composed of a 4 bytes control command
425header followed by register write data in case of control write command.
426
427The MAC-PHY ignores the final 4 bytes of data from the SPI host at the end
428of the control write command. The control write command is also echoed
429from the MAC-PHY back to the SPI host to identify which register write
430failed in case of any bus errors. The echoed Control write command will
431have the first 4 bytes unused value to be ignored by the SPI host
432followed by 4 bytes echoed control header followed by echoed register
433write data. Control write commands can write either a single register or
434multiple consecutive registers. When multiple consecutive registers are
435written, the address is automatically post-incremented by the MAC-PHY.
436Writing to any unimplemented or undefined registers shall be ignored and
437yield no effect.
438
439The MAC-PHY ignores all data from the SPI host following the control
440header for the remainder of the control read command. The control read
441command is also echoed from the MAC-PHY back to the SPI host to identify
442which register read is failed in case of any bus errors. The echoed
443Control read command will have the first 4 bytes of unused value to be
444ignored by the SPI host followed by 4 bytes echoed control header followed
445by register read data. Control read commands can read either a single
446register or multiple consecutive registers. When multiple consecutive
447registers are read, the address is automatically post-incremented by the
448MAC-PHY. Reading any unimplemented or undefined registers shall return
449zero.
450
451Device drivers API
452==================
453
454The include/linux/oa_tc6.h defines the following functions:
455
456.. c:function:: struct oa_tc6 *oa_tc6_init(struct spi_device *spi, \
457                                           struct net_device *netdev)
458
459Initialize OA TC6 lib.
460
461.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_exit(struct oa_tc6 *tc6)
462
463Free allocated OA TC6 lib.
464
465.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_register(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
466                                          u32 value)
467
468Write a single register in the MAC-PHY.
469
470.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_registers(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
471                                           u32 value[], u8 length)
472
473Writing multiple consecutive registers starting from @address in the MAC-PHY.
474Maximum of 128 consecutive registers can be written starting at @address.
475
476.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_register(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
477                                         u32 *value)
478
479Read a single register in the MAC-PHY.
480
481.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_registers(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
482                                          u32 value[], u8 length)
483
484Reading multiple consecutive registers starting from @address in the MAC-PHY.
485Maximum of 128 consecutive registers can be read starting at @address.
486
487.. c:function:: netdev_tx_t oa_tc6_start_xmit(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
488                                              struct sk_buff *skb);
489
490The transmit Ethernet frame in the skb is or going to be transmitted through
491the MAC-PHY.
492
493.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_zero_align_receive_frame_enable(struct oa_tc6 *tc6);
494
495Zero align receive frame feature can be enabled to align all receive ethernet
496frames data to start at the beginning of any receive data chunk payload with a
497start word offset (SWO) of zero.
498