Re: [PATCH net-next v12 08/18] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix 1000Base-X and 2500Base-X modes

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 03:08:55PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 03:01:07PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > FYI:
> > > TP-LINK TL-SM410U 2500Base-T module:
> > > 
> > > sfp EE: 00000000: 03 04 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 01 1f 00 00 00  .........@......
> > > sfp EE: 00000010: 00 00 00 00 54 50 2d 4c 49 4e 4b 20 20 20 20 20  ....TP-LINK     
> > > sfp EE: 00000020: 20 20 20 20 00 30 b5 c2 54 4c 2d 53 4d 34 31 30      .0..TL-SM410
> > > sfp EE: 00000030: 55 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 32 2e 30 20 00 00 00 1b  U       2.0 ....
> > > sfp EE: 00000040: 00 08 01 00 80 ff ff ff 40 3d f0 0d c0 ff ff ff  ........@=......
> > > sfp EE: 00000050: c8 39 7a 08 c0 ff ff ff 50 3d f0 0d c0 ff ff ff  .9z.....P=......
> > > sfp sfp2: module TP-LINK          TL-SM410U        rev 2.0  sn 12260M4001782    dc 220622  
> > 
> > I'm guessing this is a module with a checksum problem...
> 
> No, the checksum of the TL-SM410U is correct. I have patched the kernel
> to always dump the EEPROM, so I can share it with you.

Bear in mind that I haven't spent time with the spec to manually decode
the above, when I have tools to do that for me when given the EEPROM in
the correct form, which is:

> > It would be nice to add these to my database - please send me the
> > output of ethtool -m $iface raw on > foo.bin for each module.

so if you can do that for me, then I can see whether it's likely that
the patches that are already in mainline will do anything to solve
the workaround you've had to add for the hw signals.

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