netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: phy: aquantia: add firmware load support

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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 07:24:04 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Robert Marko <robimarko@...il.com>, hkallweit1@...il.com,
 linux@...linux.org.uk, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>, Luis Chamberlain
 <mcgrof@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: phy: aquantia: add firmware load
 support

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 04:43:51 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> The Aquantia PHY and its `firmware` is just weird. It is more than
> just firmware, it also contains what i think they call provisioning.
> That is basically the reset defaults for registers. And not everything
> is documented, and i think parts of that provision contains SERDES eye
> configuration. So i think you end up with a custom firmware per board?

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for explaining.