v1.3.0 — Ethernet works 🌐

[1.3.0] - 2026-06-24

Fixed

• On-board LAN9500A USB-Ethernet now works on mainline 6.12 🌐 — the
  long-standing "intermittent / never enumerates" problem is resolved. The
  chip enumerates on every boot (0424:9e00 → smsc95xx … eth0), the link comes
  up at 100 Mbps/Full and passes traffic cleanly. Verified on hardware: 5/5
  reboots all enumerate, 600 sustained pings at 0 % loss, 410 MB moved with
  zero rx/tx/CRC/drop errors. Root cause was two combined bugs, both found by
  stock-parity auditing against the factory Android kernel:
  • Patch 0012 (mfd: omap-usb-host): mainline only enables the per-port
    UTMI functional clock (usb_host_hs_utmi_pN_clk — the L3INIT CLKCTRL
    OPTFCLKEN gate) for TLL/HSIC port modes. An external-PHY (ehci-phy)
    port falls through to default: and never gets its clock, so the port-1 UTMI
    link block ran unclocked (clk_summary showed it disabled) and the
    controller never latched the downstream connect (PORTSC CCS stuck 0). Added
    OMAP_EHCI_PORT_MODE_PHY to the clock enable/disable paths.
  • Patch 0006 (usb: ehci-omap): stock's omap_ehci_soft_phy_reset (the
    UHH softreset / gpio pulse / clock re-park / ULPI register burst) is not
    the EHCI .reset hook — it is a runtime ehci_hub_control recovery
    handler that only fires when a port reset/resume times out, after a
    device has connected. We were running that whole sequence at bring-up, which
    blocked the very first connect. The .reset hook is now a plain
    ehci_setup() bring-up (the USB3320's reset defaults already put it in host
    mode); the ULPI/UHH recovery helpers are retained for a future hub_control
    hook.

Changed

• All kernel patch headers now carry petronijus@bastla.com (was a work email /
  placeholder).

Artifacts

• nexusq-boot-v1.3.0.img — kernel-only change (the ethernet fix); flash to the
  boot partition. The rootfs is unchanged from v1.2.0 — reuse
  nexusq-rootfs-v1.2.0-sparse.img from the v1.2.0 release.

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0