From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"vivien.didelot@gmail.com" <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dsa: mv88e6xxx: serdes link without phy
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:36:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001123649.GC4050473@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2c1196a-3a0f-6527-2ae0-8d53af2912df@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> > Can you run 1000Base-X over these links?
> With some reading "1000base-x" does seem the right thing to say here.
> It's even what is reflected in the CMODE field for those ports.
One more thing you might need is
managed = "in-band-status";
> > If you can, it is probably
> > worth chatting to Russell King about using inband-signalling, and what
> > is needed to make it work without having back to back SFPs. If i
> > remember correctly, Russell has said not much is actually needed.
>
> That'd be ideal. The sticking point seems to be allowing it to have no PHY.
I think there is more to it than that. This is new ground to some
extent.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 0:45 dsa: mv88e6xxx: serdes link without phy Chris Packham
2020-10-01 1:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-01 2:27 ` Chris Packham
2020-10-01 12:36 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-10-02 4:13 ` Chris Packham
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