Messages in this thread | | | From | Jose Abreu <> | Subject | RE: [RFC net-next] net: phy: Add basic support for Synopsys XPCS using a PHY driver | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:54:28 +0000 |
| |
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Date: Jan/13/2020, 13:38:45 (UTC+00:00)
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 02:11:08PM +0100, Jose Abreu wrote: > > Adds the basic support for XPCS including support for USXGMII. > > Hi Jose > > Please could you describe the 'big picture'. What comes after the > XPCS? An SFP? A copper PHY? How in Linux do you combine this PHY and > whatever comes next using PHYLINK? > > Or do only support backplane with this, and the next thing in the line > is the peers XPCS?
My current setup is this:
Host PC x86 -> PCI -> XGMAC -> XPCS -> SERDES 10G-BASE-R -> QSFP+
The only piece that needs configuration besides XGMAC is the XPCS hereby I "called" it a PHY ... Anyway, this is an RFC because I'm not entirely sure about the approach. Hmm ?
--- Thanks, Jose Miguel Abreu
| |