Re: [PATCH net-next 1/8] net: phy: add support for overclocked SGMII

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Jun 19 2024 - 15:29:27 EST


On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:09 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 08:45:42PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The Aquantia AQR115C PHY supports the Overlocked SGMII mode. In order to
> > support it in the driver, extend the PHY core with the new mode bits and
> > pieces.
>
> Here we go again....
>

Admittedly I don't post to net very often and I assume there's a story
to this comment? Care to elaborate?

Bart

> Is this 2500BaseX but without inband signalling, since SGMII inband
> signalling makes no sense at 2.5G?
>
> Andrew