Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net: phy: aquantia: add firmware load support

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Oct 05 2023 - 12:22:40 EST


On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 04:43:51 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> The Aquantia PHY and its `firmware` is just weird. It is more than
> just firmware, it also contains what i think they call provisioning.
> That is basically the reset defaults for registers. And not everything
> is documented, and i think parts of that provision contains SERDES eye
> configuration. So i think you end up with a custom firmware per board?

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for explaining.