Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:19:41 +0200 | From | Thomas Petazzoni <> | Subject | Re: [5/6] mvneta: implement SGMII-based in-band link state signaling |
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Sebastien, Stas,
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:03:26 +0200 (CEST), Sebastien Rannou wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Stas Sergeev wrote: > > > What is there? A phy chip, or something else? > > It's "something else", there's a phy which aggregates 4xSGMIIs to > 1xQSGMII, we are on the media side here, the MAC side is connected > to the switch through QSGMII. > > > Perhaps some DT property should be added to explicitly > > enable the use of the inband status... > > Yes, that would be fine.
Isn't it a bit weird to need a new DT property for this? Shouldn't fixed-link always imply this inband status thing?
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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