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From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Stefan Chulski <stefanc@marvell.com>,
	Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: phy: phylink: allow 10GKR interface to use in-band negotiation
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:13:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180319131343.GK4519@kwain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180319130823.GA22306@lunn.ch>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 02:08:23PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > If they don't have PHYs, how are the connected to the outside world?
> > 
> > By external SFP or direct attached cable.
> 
> Maybe i'm missing something, but don't you just need to add an SFP
> device in the device tree. The SFP code and PHYLINK will work
> together, query what the SFP module is, use the GPIOs to determine
> link up/down and module present, and tell the MAC how to configure the
> MAC-SFP link?

This would definitively work for SFP connectors with a PHY, but would
that work when using direct attached cable? As in the second case
phylink wouldn't be able to ask the SFP PHY for the link state.

Antoine

-- 
Antoine Ténart, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-19 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-16 10:33 [PATCH net-next 00/10] net: mvpp2: phylink conversion Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 01/10] net: mvpp2: align the ethtool ops definition Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: phy: phylink: allow 10GKR interface to use in-band negotiation Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 15:53   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-03-19  8:52     ` Antoine Tenart
2018-03-19 11:12       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-03-19 12:52         ` Antoine Tenart
2018-03-19 12:59           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-19 13:03             ` [EXT] " Stefan Chulski
2018-03-19 13:08               ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-19 13:13                 ` Antoine Tenart [this message]
2018-03-19 13:24                   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-19 13:19                 ` Stefan Chulski
2018-03-19 13:23                   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-19 13:42                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-03-19 13:10             ` Antoine Tenart
2018-03-19 13:18               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-03-19 13:26                 ` Antoine Tenart
2018-03-19 12:58         ` [EXT] " Stefan Chulski
2018-03-19 13:01           ` Yan Markman
2018-03-19 13:05             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 03/10] net: mvpp2: phylink support Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 16:03   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-03-19  8:45     ` Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 04/10] phy: add 2.5G SGMII mode to the phy_mode enum Antoine Tenart
2018-03-19  9:46   ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 05/10] phy: cp110-comphy: 2.5G SGMII mode Antoine Tenart
2018-03-18  4:42   ` Baruch Siach
2018-03-19  8:44     ` Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 06/10] net: mvpp2: 1000baseX support Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 07/10] net: mvpp2: 2500baseX support Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 08/10] arm64: dts: marvell: 7040-db: set the 10G interface management to in-band Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 09/10] arm64: dts: marvell: 8040-db: set the 10G interfaces " Antoine Tenart
2018-03-16 10:33 ` [PATCH net-next 10/10] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: enable the fourth network interface Antoine Tenart

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