Re: Lynx 10G SerDes Driver on my kernel

Tanjeff Moos
2025-12-08T16:50:25Z

On 12/5/25 13:44, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The latest is
> lf-6.12.49-2.2.0, which is what you should be looking at.
On Dec 02 you wrote:

To integrate the Lynx 10G driver, you'll need to do that on your own as
patches. The correct git tree used by Layerscape boards in Linux Factory is:
https://github.com/nxp-qoriq/linux/tree/lf-6.12.34-2.1.0

But since lf-6.12.49-2.2.0 is newer I rather choose this one.

> The truth is I don't have something ready-made to give you either, and
> some assembly will be required. The Linux Factory changes were made in
> chronological order, and it took me some time to disentangle the base
> SerDes patches from the backplane link training work (which require
> their own clause 72/73 API which I also had to introduce), and the
> resulting linearized changes are in my personal net-phy-upstreaming
> branch. If you want to take a look there, you can, but you are On Your
> Own in terms of figuring out what you need and integrating these changes
> into OpenWrt sadly.
I'll give it a try. Thanks a lot for your hints! I'll come back to you if I have questions :)

Regards, Tanjeff