Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: Add basic support for Synopsys XPCS using a PHY driver

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Mon Jan 13 2020 - 09:56:06 EST


Hi Jose,

On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 16:28, Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This uses Clause 73 for Autoneg. I can add that into PHYLINK core if you
> agree.
>

Clauses 72 and 73 describe some PMD link training procedure too, as
part of auto-negotiation for 10GBase-KR. Does the XGPCS do any of
that? Is this series sufficient for link training to work when in the
10GBase-KR copper backplane link mode?

> ---
> Thanks,
> Jose Miguel Abreu

Regards,
-Vladimir