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From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: net: phy: Dealing with 88e1543 dual-port mode
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:45:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201119164544.69b87307@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201119151641.GJ1853236@lunn.ch>

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:16:41 +0100
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

>Hi Maxime
>
>> The way this works is that the PHY is internally configured by chaining
>> 2 internal PHYs back to back. One PHY deals with the Host interface and
>> is configured as an SGMII to QSGMII converter (the QSGMII is only used
>> from within the PHY), and the other PHY acts as the Media-side PHY,
>> configured in QSGMII to auto-media (RJ45 or Fiber (SFP)) :
>> 
>>                 +- 88e1543 -----------------------+
>> +-----+         | +--------+          +--------+  |  /-- Copper (RJ45)
>> |     |--SGMII----| Port 0 |--QSGMII--| Port 1 |----<
>> |     |         | +--------+          +--------+  |  \--- Fiber
>> | MAC |         |                                 |
>> |     |         | +--------+          +--------+  |  /-- Copper (RJ45)
>> |     |--SGMII----| Port 2 |--QSGMII--| Port 3 |----<
>> +-----+         | +--------+          +--------+  |  \-- Fiber
>>                 +---------------------------------+  
>
>Does this mean you need a dual port MAC as well?
>
>Do we need to configure the MUX in the MAC?

No, it's my schematic that is misleading in that case :) The 2
ports are independent of each other. There isn't any configuration on
the MAC part for that setup.

Thanks,

Maxime



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      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 14:22 net: phy: Dealing with 88e1543 dual-port mode Maxime Chevallier
2020-11-19 14:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-19 15:19   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-19 15:24   ` Maxime Chevallier
2020-11-19 22:43     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-11-19 23:16       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-20  0:11         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-11-20  0:40           ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-20  9:12             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-11-20  9:36           ` Maxime Chevallier
2020-11-20 10:25             ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-20 10:59               ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-11-20 13:55               ` Andrew Lunn
2020-11-20 14:18                 ` Maxime Chevallier
2020-11-20  0:00       ` Andrew Lunn
2020-11-20  9:05         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-11-19 15:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-11-19 15:45   ` Maxime Chevallier [this message]

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