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From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, kishon@ti.com, jason@lakedaemon.net,
	sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com,
	gregory.clement@free-electrons.com, mw@semihalf.com,
	stefanc@marvell.com, ymarkman@marvell.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
	miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com, nadavh@marvell.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: enable the fourth network interface
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:05:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171228100519.GE2626@kwain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171228074623.GA28444@lunn.ch>

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 08:46:23AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:24:01PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:14:45PM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > >  
> > > +&cps_eth2 {
> > > +	/* CPS Lane 5 */
> > > +	status = "okay";
> > > +	phy-mode = "2500base-x";
> > > +	/* Generic PHY, providing serdes lanes */
> > > +	phys = <&cps_comphy5 2>;
> > > +};
> > > +
> > 
> > This is wrong.  This lane is connected to a SFP cage which can support
> > more than just 2500base-X.  Tying it in this way to 2500base-X means
> > that this port does not support conenctions at 1000base-X, despite
> > that's one of the most popular and more standardised speeds.
> > 
> 
> I agree with Russell here. SFP modules are hot pluggable, and support
> a range of interface modes. You need to query what the SFP module is
> in order to know how to configure the SERDES interface. The phylink
> infrastructure does that for you.

Sure, I understand. We'll be able to support such interfaces only when
the phylink PPv2 support lands in.

Thanks!
Antoine

-- 
Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-28 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-27 22:14 [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: mvpp2: 1000BaseX and 2000BaseX support Antoine Tenart
2017-12-27 22:14 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] phy: add 2.5G SGMII mode to the phy_mode enum Antoine Tenart
2017-12-28  7:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-28 10:06     ` Antoine Tenart
2017-12-28 14:16       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-12-28 18:24         ` Antoine Tenart
2018-01-03 14:35         ` Antoine Tenart
2018-01-03 15:08           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 17:29             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-27 22:14 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] phy: cp110-comphy: 2.5G SGMII mode Antoine Tenart
2017-12-27 22:14 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: mvpp2: 1000baseX support Antoine Tenart
2017-12-27 22:14 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: mvpp2: 2500baseX support Antoine Tenart
2017-12-27 22:14 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: enable the fourth network interface Antoine Tenart
2017-12-27 22:24   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-27 22:42     ` Antoine Tenart
2017-12-27 23:20       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-28 10:04         ` Antoine Tenart
2017-12-28 18:59           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-29 21:41             ` Antoine Tenart
2017-12-28  7:46     ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-28 10:05       ` Antoine Tenart [this message]
2017-12-28 15:02         ` Florian Fainelli
2017-12-28 18:27           ` Antoine Tenart
2017-12-28 18:46             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-29 11:12               ` Marcin Wojtas
2017-12-29 11:38                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-30 16:34                   ` Marcin Wojtas
2017-12-30 17:31                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-01 10:18                       ` Marcin Wojtas
2018-01-01 10:35                         ` [EXT] " Stefan Chulski
2018-01-01 13:25                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-03 17:00                             ` Stefan Chulski
2018-01-03 17:54                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-03 18:17                                 ` Marcin Wojtas
2018-01-03 18:26                                 ` Stefan Chulski
2017-12-27 22:14 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] arm64: dts: marvell: add Ethernet aliases Antoine Tenart

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