Re: [RFC net-next 0/7] Add basic SyncE interfaces
From: Richard Cochran
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 13:05:49 EST
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Arkadiusz Kubalewski wrote:
> The second part can be used to select the port from which the clock
> gets recovered. Each PHY chip can have multiple pins on which the
> recovered clock can be propagated. For example, a SyncE-capable PHY
> can recover the carrier frequency of the first port, divide it
> internally, and output it as a reference clock on PIN 0.
This really sounds like its own thing, and not a PHC at all.
> Next steps:
> - Add CONFIG_SYNCE definition into Kconfig
> - Add more configuration interfaces. Aiming at devlink, since this
> would be device-wide configuration
As a first step, finding an appropriate kernel/user space API would be
needed.
Thanks,
Richard