Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] Documentation: net: phy: Add blurb about RGMII

From
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date
2016-11-27 23:02:54
Reply to
Timur Tabi, 2016-11-27
Le 27/11/2016 à 14:24, Timur Tabi a écrit :
quoted
+ * PHY device drivers in PHYLIB being reusable by nature, being able to
+   configure correctly a specified delay enables more designs with
similar delay
+   requirements to be operate correctly
Ok, this one I don't know how to fix.  I'm not really sure what you're
trying to say.
What I am trying to say is that once a PHY driver properly configures a
delay that you have specified, there is no reason why this is not
applicable to other platforms using this same PHY driver.
quoted
+
+Common problems with RGMII delay mismatch
+
+ When there is a RGMII delay mismatch between the Ethernet MAC and
the PHY, this
+ will most likely result in the clock and data line sampling to
capture unstable
I'm not sure what "sampling to capture unstable" is supposed to mean.
When the PHY devices takes a "snapshot" of the state of the data lines,
after a clock edge, if the delay is improperly configured, these data
lines are going to still be floating, or show some kind of
capacitance/inductance effect, so the logical level which is going to be
read may be incorrect.
-- 
Florian
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