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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Mitchell Erblich <erblichs@earthlink.net>,
	Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>, Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
	"terry.liu@oracle.com" <terry.liu@oracle.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom 5709 take long time to bring up
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:19:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282169972.3454.148.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6C4FE5.20509@hp.com>

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:25 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> Mitchell Erblich wrote:
> > On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Benjamin Li wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi Joe,
> >>
> >>Just a couple of quick questions:
> >>
> >>1.  It is possible that autonegotiation could take in the orders of
> >>seconds depending on the remote partner.   
> > 
> > 
> > No. It happens in ms.
> > 
> > Mitchell Erblich
> 
> Both may be correct, depending on the context.  The IEEE specs likely mandate 
> that autonegotiation take no longer than N ms, but there may indeed be kit out 
> there that takes rather longer...

Autonegotiation per se should not take very long, but 1000BASE-T or
10GBASE-T also require the PHYs to sync clocks, detect and cancel
echoes, and so on.  I believe that that link training normally takes a
few seconds after AN is done.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-18 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-18 14:34 Broadcom 5709 take long time to bring up Joe Jin
2010-08-18 16:08 ` Benjamin Li
2010-08-18 20:44   ` Mitchell Erblich
2010-08-18 21:25     ` Rick Jones
2010-08-18 22:19       ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-08-19  1:13   ` Joe Jin
2010-08-19  8:11     ` Joe Jin
2010-08-23 14:21       ` Joe Jin

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