Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver

[Vladimir Oltean]

Hi Steen,

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 02:04:34PM +0100, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver
>
> This series of patches provides the serdes driver for the Microchip Sparx5
> ethernet switch.
>
> The serdes driver supports the 10G and 25G serdes instances available in the
> Sparx5.
>
> The Sparx5 serdes support several interface modes with several speeds and also
> allows the client to change the mode and the speed according to changing in the
> environment such as changing cables from DAC to fiber.
>
> The serdes driver is to be used by the Sparx5 switchdev driver that
> will follow in subsequent series.
>
> History:
> --------
> v6 -> v7:
>     This series changes the way the IO targets are provided to the driver.
>     Now only one IO range is available in the DT, and the driver has a table
>     to map its targets (as their order is still not sequential), thus reducing
>     the DT needed information and binding requirements.
>     The register access macros have been converted to functions.
>
>     - Bindings:
>       - reg prop: minItems set to 1
>       - reg-names prop: removed
>     - Driver
>       - Use one IO range and map targets via this.
>       - Change register access macros to use functions.
>       - Provided a new header files with reg access functions.
>     - Device tree
>       - Provide only one IO range
>
> v5 -> v6:
>      Series error: This had the same content as v5
>
> v4 -> v5:
>     - Bindings:
>       - Removed .yaml from compatible string
>       - reg prop: removed description and added minItems
>       - reg-names prop: removed description and added const name list and minItems
>       - #phy-cells prop: removed description and added maxItems
>     - Configuration interface
>       - Removed include of linux/phy.h
>       - Added include of linux/types.h
>     - Driver
>        - Added include of linux/phy.h
>
> v3 -> v4:
>     - Add a reg-names item to the binding description
>     - Add a clocks item to the binding description
>     - Removed the clock parameter from the configuration interface
>     - Use the clock dt node to get the coreclock, and using that when
>       doing the actual serdes configuration
>     - Added a clocks entry with a system clock reference to the serdes node in
>       the device tree
>
> v2 -> v3:
>     - Sorted the Kconfig sourced folders
>     - Sorted the Makefile included folders
>     - Changed the configuration interface documentation to use kernel style
>
> v1 -> v2: Fixed kernel test robot warnings
>     - Made these structures static:
>       - media_presets_25g
>       - mode_presets_25g
>       - media_presets_10g
>       - mode_presets_10g
>     - Removed these duplicate initializations:
>       - sparx5_sd25g28_params.cfg_rx_reserve_15_8
>       - sparx5_sd25g28_params.cfg_pi_en
>       - sparx5_sd25g28_params.cfg_cdrck_en
>       - sparx5_sd10g28_params.cfg_cdrck_en
>
> Lars Povlsen (2):
>   dt-bindings: phy: Add sparx5-serdes bindings
>   arm64: dts: sparx5: Add Sparx5 serdes driver node
>
> Steen Hegelund (2):
>   phy: Add ethernet serdes configuration option
>   phy: Add Sparx5 ethernet serdes PHY driver
>
>  .../bindings/phy/microchip,sparx5-serdes.yaml |  100 +
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/microchip/sparx5.dtsi     |    8 +
>  drivers/phy/Kconfig                           |    3 +-
>  drivers/phy/Makefile                          |    1 +
>  drivers/phy/microchip/Kconfig                 |   12 +
>  drivers/phy/microchip/Makefile                |    6 +
>  drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes.c         | 2434 +++++++++++++++
>  drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes.h         |  129 +
>  drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes_regs.h    | 2695 +++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/phy/phy-ethernet-serdes.h       |   30 +
>  include/linux/phy/phy.h                       |    4 +
>  11 files changed, 5421 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/microchip,sparx5-serdes.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/microchip/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/microchip/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/microchip/sparx5_serdes_regs.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/phy/phy-ethernet-serdes.h
>
> --
> 2.29.2

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