Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: dpaa2-mac: add backplane link mode support

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:19:01PM +0000, Ioana Ciornei wrote:

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:36:09PM +0000, Russell King wrote:

quoted

Add support for backplane link mode, which is, according to discussions
with NXP earlier in the year, is a mode where the OS (Linux) is able to
manage the PCS and Serdes itself.

Indeed, DPMACs in TYPE_BACKPLANE can have both their PCS and SerDes managed
by Linux (since the firmware is not touching these).
That being said, DPMACs in TYPE_PHY (the type that is already supported
in dpaa2-mac) can also have their PCS managed by Linux (no interraction
from the firmware's part with the PCS, just the SerDes).

All in all, this patch is not needed for this particular usecase, where
the switch between 1000Base-X and SGMII is done by just a minor
reconfiguration in the PCS, without the need for SerDes changes.

Also, with just the changes from this patch, a interface connected to a
DPMAC in TYPE_BACKPLANE is not even creating a phylink instance. It's
mainly because of this check from dpaa2-eth:

	if (dpaa2_eth_is_type_phy(priv)) {
		err = dpaa2_mac_connect(mac);


I would suggest just dropping this patch.

Hi Ioana,

So what is happening with this series given our discussions off-list?

Do I resend it as-is?

Thanks.

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