Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: phy: phylink: allow 10GKR interface to use in-band negotiation
From: Antoine Tenart <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-19 13:10:18
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Hi Andrew, On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 01:59:53PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
If they don't have PHYs, how are the connected to the outside world?
On 7k/8k you have the following scheme for 10G only interfaces: MAC -- Comphy -- PHY -- SFP cage -- ... Or MAC -- Comphy -- SFP cage -- ... The comphy provides serdes lanes, and can be configured in various modes (SGMII, 2500SGMII, 10GKR...). Antoine -- Antoine Ténart, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com