After the discussion here:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210603143453.if7hgifupx5k433b@pali/
which resulted in this patch:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210704134325.24842-1-pali@kernel.org/
and many other discussions before it, notably:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/1512016235-15909-1-git-send-email-Bhaskar.Upadhaya@nxp.com/
it became apparent that nobody really knows what "SGMII 2500" is.
Certainly, Freescale/NXP hardware engineers name this protocol
"SGMII 2500" in the reference manuals, but the PCS devices do not
support any "SGMII" specific features when operating at the speed of
2500 Mbps, no in-band autoneg and no speed change via symbol replication
. So that leaves a fixed speed of 2500 Mbps using a coding of 8b/10b
with a SERDES lane frequency of 3.125 GHz. In fact, "SGMII 2500 without
in-band autoneg and at a fixed speed" is indistinguishable from
"2500base-x without in-band autoneg", which is precisely what these NXP
devices support.
So it just appears that "SGMII 2500" is an unclear name with no clear
definition that stuck.
As such, in the Linux kernel, the drivers which use this SERDES protocol
use the 2500base-x phy-mode.
This patch converts U-Boot to use 2500base-x too, or at least, as much
as it can.
Note that I would have really liked to delete PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII_2500
completely, but the mvpp2 driver seems to even distinguish between SGMII
2500 and 2500base-X. Namely, it enables in-band autoneg for one but not
the other, and forces flow control for one but not the other. This goes
back to the idea that maybe 2500base-X is a fiber protocol and SGMII-2500
is an MII protocol (connects a MAC to a PHY such as Aquantia), but the
two are practically indistinguishable through everything except use case.
NXP devices can support both use cases through an identical configuration,
for example RX flow control can be unconditionally enabled in order to
support rate adaptation performed by an Aquantia PHY. At least I can
find no indication in online documents published by Cisco which would
point towards "SGMII-2500" being an actual standard with an actual
definition, so I cannot say "yes, NXP devices support it".
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@gmail.com>
NXP Legal insists that the following are not fine:
- Saying "NXP Semiconductors" instead of "NXP", since the company's
registered name is "NXP"
- Putting a "(c)" sign in the copyright string
- Putting a comma in the copyright string
The only accepted copyright string format is "Copyright <year-range> NXP".
This patch changes the copyright headers in the networking files that
were sent by me, or derived from code sent by me.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@gmail.com>
Includes DT definition for the following serdes protocols using various
PHY cards: 85xx, 13xx, 65xx, 9999, 7777.
Note that the default device tree for QDS now uses 85xx.
Enabling any of the others requires patching the fsl-ls1028a-qds.dtsi
file (the includes at the bottom of the file).
The phy-handle is specified as a path rather than a label because it is
possible to use the #include multiple times (meaning that more than one
PHY riser card of one type is inserted), and therefore, there would be
duplicate labels with the same name.
LBRW means that the board needs lane B rework before using this dtsi.
Signed-off-by: Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Priyanka Jain <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>
