linux/Documentation/networking/oa-tc6-framework.rst

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OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY Serial Interface (TC6) Framework Support
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Introduction
------------

The IEEE 802.3cg project defines two 10 Mbit/s PHYs operating over a
single pair of conductors. The 10BASE-T1L (Clause 146) is a long reach
PHY supporting full duplex point-to-point operation over 1 km of single
balanced pair of conductors. The 10BASE-T1S (Clause 147) is a short reach
PHY supporting full / half duplex point-to-point operation over 15 m of
single balanced pair of conductors, or half duplex multidrop bus
operation over 25 m of single balanced pair of conductors.

Furthermore, the IEEE 802.3cg project defines the new Physical Layer
Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (Clause 148) meant to
provide improved determinism to the CSMA/CD media access method. PLCA
works in conjunction with the 10BASE-T1S PHY operating in multidrop mode.

The aforementioned PHYs are intended to cover the low-speed / low-cost
applications in industrial and automotive environment. The large number
of pins (16) required by the MII interface, which is specified by the
IEEE 802.3 in Clause 22, is one of the major cost factors that need to be
addressed to fulfil this objective.

The MAC-PHY solution integrates an IEEE Clause 4 MAC and a 10BASE-T1x PHY
exposing a low pin count Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) to the host
microcontroller. This also enables the addition of Ethernet functionality
to existing low-end microcontrollers which do not integrate a MAC
controller.

Overview
--------

The MAC-PHY is specified to carry both data (Ethernet frames) and control
(register access) transactions over a single full-duplex serial peripheral
interface.

Protocol Overview
-----------------

Two types of transactions are defined in the protocol: data transactions
for Ethernet frame transfers and control transactions for register
read/write transfers. A chunk is the basic element of data transactions
and is composed of 4 bytes of overhead plus 64 bytes of payload size for
each chunk. Ethernet frames are transferred over one or more data chunks.
Control transactions consist of one or more register read/write control
commands.

SPI transactions are initiated by the SPI host with the assertion of CSn
low to the MAC-PHY and ends with the deassertion of CSn high. In between
each SPI transaction, the SPI host may need time for additional
processing and to setup the next SPI data or control transaction.

SPI data transactions consist of an equal number of transmit (TX) and
receive (RX) chunks. Chunks in both transmit and receive directions may
or may not contain valid frame data independent from each other, allowing
for the simultaneous transmission and reception of different length
frames.

Each transmit data chunk begins with a 32-bit data header followed by a
data chunk payload on MOSI. The data header indicates whether transmit
frame data is present and provides the information to determine which
bytes of the payload contain valid frame data.

In parallel, receive data chunks are received on MISO. Each receive data
chunk consists of a data chunk payload ending with a 32-bit data footer.
The data footer indicates if there is receive frame data present within
the payload or not and provides the information to determine which bytes
of the payload contain valid frame data.

Reference
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10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY Serial Interface Specification,

Link: https://opensig.org/download/document/OPEN_Alliance_10BASET1x_MAC-PHY_Serial_Interface_V1.1.pdf

Hardware Architecture
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  +----------+      +-------------------------------------+
  |          |      |                MAC-PHY              |
  |          |<---->| +-----------+  +-------+  +-------+ |
  | SPI Host |      | | SPI Slave |  |  MAC  |  |  PHY  | |
  |          |      | +-----------+  +-------+  +-------+ |
  +----------+      +-------------------------------------+

Software Architecture
---------------------

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  +----------------------------------------------------------+
  |                 Networking Subsystem                     |
  +----------------------------------------------------------+
            / \                             / \
             |                               |
             |                               |
            \ /                              |
  +----------------------+     +-----------------------------+
  |     MAC Driver       |<--->| OPEN Alliance TC6 Framework |
  +----------------------+     +-----------------------------+
            / \                             / \
             |                               |
             |                               |
             |                              \ /
  +----------------------------------------------------------+
  |                    SPI Subsystem                         |
  +----------------------------------------------------------+
                          / \
                           |
                           |
                          \ /
  +----------------------------------------------------------+
  |                10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY Device                 |
  +----------------------------------------------------------+

Implementation
--------------

MAC Driver
~~~~~~~~~~

- Probed by SPI subsystem.

- Initializes OA TC6 framework for the MAC-PHY.

- Registers and configures the network device.

- Sends the tx ethernet frames from n/w subsystem to OA TC6 framework.

OPEN Alliance TC6 Framework
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Initializes PHYLIB interface.

- Registers mac-phy interrupt.

- Performs mac-phy register read/write operation using the control
  transaction protocol specified in the OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY
  Serial Interface specification.

- Performs Ethernet frames transaction using the data transaction protocol
  for Ethernet frames specified in the OPEN Alliance 10BASE-T1x MAC-PHY
  Serial Interface specification.

- Forwards the received Ethernet frame from 10Base-T1x MAC-PHY to n/w
  subsystem.

Data Transaction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Ethernet frames that are typically transferred from the SPI host to
the MAC-PHY will be converted into multiple transmit data chunks. Each
transmit data chunk will have a 4 bytes header which contains the
information needed to determine the validity and the location of the
transmit frame data within the 64 bytes data chunk payload.

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  +---------------------------------------------------+
  |                     Tx Chunk                      |
  | +---------------------------+  +----------------+ |   MOSI
  | | 64 bytes chunk payload    |  | 4 bytes header | |------------>
  | +---------------------------+  +----------------+ |
  +---------------------------------------------------+

4 bytes header contains the below fields,

DNC (Bit 31) - Data-Not-Control flag. This flag specifies the type of SPI
               transaction. For TX data chunks, this bit shall be ’1’.
               0 - Control command
               1 - Data chunk

SEQ (Bit 30) - Data Chunk Sequence. This bit is used to indicate an
               even/odd transmit data chunk sequence to the MAC-PHY.

NORX (Bit 29) - No Receive flag. The SPI host may set this bit to prevent
                the MAC-PHY from conveying RX data on the MISO for the
                current chunk (DV = 0 in the footer), indicating that the
                host would not process it. Typically, the SPI host should
                set NORX = 0 indicating that it will accept and process
                any receive frame data within the current chunk.

RSVD (Bit 28..24) - Reserved: All reserved bits shall be ‘0’.

VS (Bit 23..22) - Vendor Specific. These bits are implementation specific.
                  If the MAC-PHY does not implement these bits, the host
                  shall set them to ‘0’.

DV (Bit 21) - Data Valid flag. The SPI host uses this bit to indicate
              whether the current chunk contains valid transmit frame data
              (DV = 1) or not (DV = 0). When ‘0’, the MAC-PHY ignores the
              chunk payload. Note that the receive path is unaffected by
              the setting of the DV bit in the data header.

SV (Bit 20) - Start Valid flag. The SPI host shall set this bit when the
              beginning of an Ethernet frame is present in the current
              transmit data chunk payload. Otherwise, this bit shall be
              zero. This bit is not to be confused with the Start-of-Frame
              Delimiter (SFD) byte described in IEEE 802.3 [2].

SWO (Bit 19..16) - Start Word Offset. When SV = 1, this field shall
                   contain the 32-bit word offset into the transmit data
                   chunk payload that points to the start of a new
                   Ethernet frame to be transmitted. The host shall write
                   this field as zero when SV = 0.

RSVD (Bit 15) - Reserved: All reserved bits shall be ‘0’.

EV (Bit 14) - End Valid flag. The SPI host shall set this bit when the end
              of an Ethernet frame is present in the current transmit data
              chunk payload. Otherwise, this bit shall be zero.

EBO (Bit 13..8) - End Byte Offset. When EV = 1, this field shall contain
                  the byte offset into the transmit data chunk payload
                  that points to the last byte of the Ethernet frame to
                  transmit. This field shall be zero when EV = 0.

TSC (Bit 7..6) - Timestamp Capture. Request a timestamp capture when the
                 frame is transmitted onto the network.
                 00 - Do not capture a timestamp
                 01 - Capture timestamp into timestamp capture register A
                 10 - Capture timestamp into timestamp capture register B
                 11 - Capture timestamp into timestamp capture register C

RSVD (Bit 5..1) - Reserved: All reserved bits shall be ‘0’.

P (Bit 0) - Parity. Parity bit calculated over the transmit data header.
            Method used is odd parity.

The number of buffers available in the MAC-PHY to store the incoming
transmit data chunk payloads is represented as transmit credits. The
available transmit credits in the MAC-PHY can be read either from the
Buffer Status Register or footer (Refer below for the footer info)
received from the MAC-PHY. The SPI host should not write more data chunks
than the available transmit credits as this will lead to transmit buffer
overflow error.

In case the previous data footer had no transmit credits available and
once the transmit credits become available for transmitting transmit data
chunks, the MAC-PHY interrupt is asserted to SPI host. On reception of the
first data header this interrupt will be deasserted and the received
footer for the first data chunk will have the transmit credits available
information.

The Ethernet frames that are typically transferred from MAC-PHY to SPI
host will be sent as multiple receive data chunks. Each receive data
chunk will have 64 bytes of data chunk payload followed by 4 bytes footer
which contains the information needed to determine the validity and the
location of the receive frame data within the 64 bytes data chunk payload.

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  +---------------------------------------------------+
  |                     Rx Chunk                      |
  | +----------------+  +---------------------------+ |   MISO
  | | 4 bytes footer |  | 64 bytes chunk payload    | |------------>
  | +----------------+  +---------------------------+ |
  +---------------------------------------------------+

4 bytes footer contains the below fields,

EXST (Bit 31) - Extended Status. This bit is set when any bit in the
                STATUS0 or STATUS1 registers are set and not masked.

HDRB (Bit 30) - Received Header Bad. When set, indicates that the MAC-PHY
                received a control or data header with a parity error.

SYNC (Bit 29) - Configuration Synchronized flag. This bit reflects the
                state of the SYNC bit in the CONFIG0 configuration
                register (see Table 12). A zero indicates that the MAC-PHY
                configuration may not be as expected by the SPI host.
                Following configuration, the SPI host sets the
                corresponding bitin the configuration register which is
                reflected in this field.

RCA (Bit 28..24) - Receive Chunks Available. The RCA field indicates to
                   the SPI host the minimum number of additional receive
                   data chunks of frame data that are available for
                   reading beyond the current receive data chunk. This
                   field is zero when there is no receive frame data
                   pending in the MAC-PHY’s buffer for reading.

VS (Bit 23..22) - Vendor Specific. These bits are implementation specific.
                  If not implemented, the MAC-PHY shall set these bits to
                  ‘0’.

DV (Bit 21) - Data Valid flag. The MAC-PHY uses this bit to indicate
              whether the current receive data chunk contains valid
              receive frame data (DV = 1) or not (DV = 0). When ‘0’, the
              SPI host shall ignore the chunk payload.

SV (Bit 20) - Start Valid flag. The MAC-PHY sets this bit when the current
              chunk payload contains the start of an Ethernet frame.
              Otherwise, this bit is zero. The SV bit is not to be
              confused with the Start-of-Frame Delimiter (SFD) byte
              described in IEEE 802.3 [2].

SWO (Bit 19..16) - Start Word Offset. When SV = 1, this field contains the
                   32-bit word offset into the receive data chunk payload
                   containing the first byte of a new received Ethernet
                   frame. When a receive timestamp has been added to the
                   beginning of the received Ethernet frame (RTSA = 1)
                   then SWO points to the most significant byte of the
                   timestamp. This field will be zero when SV = 0.

FD (Bit 15) - Frame Drop. When set, this bit indicates that the MAC has
              detected a condition for which the SPI host should drop the
              received Ethernet frame. This bit is only valid at the end
              of a received Ethernet frame (EV = 1) and shall be zero at
              all other times.

EV (Bit 14) - End Valid flag. The MAC-PHY sets this bit when the end of a
              received Ethernet frame is present in this receive data
              chunk payload.

EBO (Bit 13..8) - End Byte Offset: When EV = 1, this field contains the
                  byte offset into the receive data chunk payload that
                  locates the last byte of the received Ethernet frame.
                  This field is zero when EV = 0.

RTSA (Bit 7) - Receive Timestamp Added. This bit is set when a 32-bit or
               64-bit timestamp has been added to the beginning of the
               received Ethernet frame. The MAC-PHY shall set this bit to
               zero when SV = 0.

RTSP (Bit 6) - Receive Timestamp Parity. Parity bit calculated over the
               32-bit/64-bit timestamp added to the beginning of the
               received Ethernet frame. Method used is odd parity. The
               MAC-PHY shall set this bit to zero when RTSA = 0.

TXC (Bit 5..1) - Transmit Credits. This field contains the minimum number
                 of transmit data chunks of frame data that the SPI host
                 can write in a single transaction without incurring a
                 transmit buffer overflow error.

P (Bit 0) - Parity. Parity bit calculated over the receive data footer.
            Method used is odd parity.

SPI host will initiate the data receive transaction based on the receive
chunks available in the MAC-PHY which is provided in the receive chunk
footer (RCA - Receive Chunks Available). SPI host will create data invalid
transmit data chunks (empty chunks) or data valid transmit data chunks in
case there are valid Ethernet frames to transmit to the MAC-PHY. The
receive chunks available in MAC-PHY can be read either from the Buffer
Status Register or footer.

In case the previous data footer had no receive data chunks available and
once the receive data chunks become available again for reading, the
MAC-PHY interrupt is asserted to SPI host. On reception of the first data
header this interrupt will be deasserted and the received footer for the
first data chunk will have the receive chunks available information.

MAC-PHY Interrupt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The MAC-PHY interrupt is asserted when the following conditions are met.

Receive chunks available - This interrupt is asserted when the previous
data footer had no receive data chunks available and once the receive
data chunks become available for reading. On reception of the first data
header this interrupt will be deasserted.

Transmit chunk credits available - This interrupt is asserted when the
previous data footer indicated no transmit credits available and once the
transmit credits become available for transmitting transmit data chunks.
On reception of the first data header this interrupt will be deasserted.

Extended status event - This interrupt is asserted when the previous data
footer indicated no extended status and once the extended event become
available. In this case the host should read status #0 register to know
the corresponding error/event. On reception of the first data header this
interrupt will be deasserted.

Control Transaction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

4 bytes control header contains the below fields,

DNC (Bit 31) - Data-Not-Control flag. This flag specifies the type of SPI
               transaction. For control commands, this bit shall be ‘0’.
               0 - Control command
               1 - Data chunk

HDRB (Bit 30) - Received Header Bad. When set by the MAC-PHY, indicates
                that a header was received with a parity error. The SPI
                host should always clear this bit. The MAC-PHY ignores the
                HDRB value sent by the SPI host on MOSI.

WNR (Bit 29) - Write-Not-Read. This bit indicates if data is to be written
               to registers (when set) or read from registers
               (when clear).

AID (Bit 28) - Address Increment Disable. When clear, the address will be
               automatically post-incremented by one following each
               register read or write. When set, address auto increment is
               disabled allowing successive reads and writes to occur at
               the same register address.

MMS (Bit 27..24) - Memory Map Selector. This field selects the specific
                   register memory map to access.

ADDR (Bit 23..8) - Address. Address of the first register within the
                   selected memory map to access.

LEN (Bit 7..1) - Length. Specifies the number of registers to read/write.
                 This field is interpreted as the number of registers
                 minus 1 allowing for up to 128 consecutive registers read
                 or written starting at the address specified in ADDR. A
                 length of zero shall read or write a single register.

P (Bit 0) - Parity. Parity bit calculated over the control command header.
            Method used is odd parity.

Control transactions consist of one or more control commands. Control
commands are used by the SPI host to read and write registers within the
MAC-PHY. Each control commands are composed of a 4 bytes control command
header followed by register write data in case of control write command.

The MAC-PHY ignores the final 4 bytes of data from the SPI host at the end
of the control write command. The control write command is also echoed
from the MAC-PHY back to the SPI host to identify which register write
failed in case of any bus errors. The echoed Control write command will
have the first 4 bytes unused value to be ignored by the SPI host
followed by 4 bytes echoed control header followed by echoed register
write data. Control write commands can write either a single register or
multiple consecutive registers. When multiple consecutive registers are
written, the address is automatically post-incremented by the MAC-PHY.
Writing to any unimplemented or undefined registers shall be ignored and
yield no effect.

The MAC-PHY ignores all data from the SPI host following the control
header for the remainder of the control read command. The control read
command is also echoed from the MAC-PHY back to the SPI host to identify
which register read is failed in case of any bus errors. The echoed
Control read command will have the first 4 bytes of unused value to be
ignored by the SPI host followed by 4 bytes echoed control header followed
by register read data. Control read commands can read either a single
register or multiple consecutive registers. When multiple consecutive
registers are read, the address is automatically post-incremented by the
MAC-PHY. Reading any unimplemented or undefined registers shall return
zero.

Device drivers API
==================

The include/linux/oa_tc6.h defines the following functions:

.. c:function:: struct oa_tc6 *oa_tc6_init(struct spi_device *spi, \
                                           struct net_device *netdev)

Initialize OA TC6 lib.

.. c:function:: void oa_tc6_exit(struct oa_tc6 *tc6)

Free allocated OA TC6 lib.

.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_register(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
                                          u32 value)

Write a single register in the MAC-PHY.

.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_write_registers(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
                                           u32 value[], u8 length)

Writing multiple consecutive registers starting from @address in the MAC-PHY.
Maximum of 128 consecutive registers can be written starting at @address.

.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_register(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
                                         u32 *value)

Read a single register in the MAC-PHY.

.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_read_registers(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, u32 address, \
                                          u32 value[], u8 length)

Reading multiple consecutive registers starting from @address in the MAC-PHY.
Maximum of 128 consecutive registers can be read starting at @address.

.. c:function:: netdev_tx_t oa_tc6_start_xmit(struct oa_tc6 *tc6, \
                                              struct sk_buff *skb);

The transmit Ethernet frame in the skb is or going to be transmitted through
the MAC-PHY.

.. c:function:: int oa_tc6_zero_align_receive_frame_enable(struct oa_tc6 *tc6);

Zero align receive frame feature can be enabled to align all receive ethernet
frames data to start at the beginning of any receive data chunk payload with a
start word offset (SWO) of zero.