Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v8 11/12] net: pcs: airoha: add PCS driver for Airoha AN7581 SoC

From: Benjamin Larsson

Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 09:40:04 EST


Hi.

On 18/06/2026 14:57, Christian Marangi wrote:
Add PCS driver for Airoha AN7581 SoC for Ethernet/PON/PCIe/USB SERDES
and permit usage of external PHY or connected SFP cage. Supported modes
are USXGMII, 10G-BASER, 2500BASE-X, 1000BASE-X and SGMII.

The driver probe and register the various needed registers and register as
a PCS provider for fwnode usage.

Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/net/pcs/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/net/pcs/airoha/Kconfig | 12 +
drivers/net/pcs/airoha/Makefile | 7 +
drivers/net/pcs/airoha/pcs-airoha-common.c | 1324 +++++++++++++
drivers/net/pcs/airoha/pcs-airoha.h | 1311 ++++++++++++
drivers/net/pcs/airoha/pcs-an7581.c | 2093 ++++++++++++++++++++
7 files changed, 4751 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcs/airoha/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcs/airoha/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcs/airoha/pcs-airoha-common.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcs/airoha/pcs-airoha.h
create mode 100644 drivers/net/pcs/airoha/pcs-an7581.c
My comment that the files should be renamed now instead of later when support for other airoha platforms are added still stands. The common code is not common among other platforms (EN7523 as example).

MvH
Benjamin Larsson