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Message-ID: <b5e6c55c-af6b-4a29-95bd-389a9323920b@quicinc.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:41:10 +0800
From:   Jie Luo <quic_luoj@...cinc.com>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
CC:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <edumazet@...gle.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        <robh+dt@...nel.org>, <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        <conor+dt@...nel.org>, <hkallweit1@...il.com>, <corbet@....net>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] net: phy: at803x: add QCA8084 ethernet phy support



On 11/24/2023 5:53 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 05:47:04PM +0800, Jie Luo wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/23/2023 8:01 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 06:57:59PM +0800, Jie Luo wrote:
>>>> On 11/21/2023 7:52 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>>>>> Ultimately, you will need a way to use inband signalling with Cisco
>>>>> SGMII for 10M/100M/1G speeds, and then switch to 2500base-X when
>>>>> operating at 2.5G speeds, and that is done via the PHY driver
>>>>> updating phydev->interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> What we do need is some way for the PHY to also tell the PCS/MAC
>>>>> whether inband should be used. This is something I keep bringing up
>>>>> and now that we have PCS drivers revised to use the value from
>>>>> phylink_pcs_neg_mode() _and_ a consistent implementation amongst them
>>>>> we can now think about signalling to PCS drivers whether inband mode
>>>>> needs to be turned off when switching between modes.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, we can switch the interface mode according to the current link
>>>> speed in the pcs driver.
>>>> but the issue is that the phy-mode i specified for the PHYLINK,
>>>> if phy-mode is sgmii, the support capability is limited to maximum
>>>> capability 1G during the PHYLINK setup and i can't configure it to 2.5G
>>>> dynamically, if the phy-mode is 2500base-x, then PHY capability will
>>>> be modified to only support 2.5G, other speeds can't be linked up.
>>>
>>> So you need my patches that add "possible_interfaces" to phylib so you
>>> can tell phylink that you will be switching between SGMII and
>>> 2500base-X. Please see the RFC posting of those patches I sent
>>> yesterday and try them out - you will need to modify your phylib
>>> driver to fill in phydev->possible_interfaces.
>>
>> Your patches work on my board, thanks Russell.
> 
> Please can you reply to the covering email for that series giving your
> tested-by? Thanks.
> 
Ok.

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