Re: [PATCH net v2] net: sparx5: start the TOD counters on non-PTP lan969x variants

From: Daniel Machon

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 06:05:52 EST


> Currently the base non-PTP-capable lan969x variants don't forward any
> Ethernet frames:
>
> $ ip link set eth10 up
>
> $ ip addr add 10.0.0.54/24 dev eth10
>
> $ ping 10.0.0.1
> PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>
> --- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
> $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep fdma
> 20: 0 GIC-0 120 Level sparx5-fdma
>
> $ ip -s link show dev eth10
> RX: bytes packets errors dropped missed mcast
> 20828 102 0 0 0 72
> TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
> 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> Testing showed that starting the domain 0 TOD counter gets networking
> working again, but start all three for consistency with the PTP variants.

Tested-by: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for the patch! :-)