RE: [PATCH net-next V2 2/2] net: axienet: Add support for 2500base-X only configuration.

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> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 2/2] net: axienet: Add support for 2500base-X only
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> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 03:06:32PM +0000, Gupta, Suraj wrote:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 8:29 PM
> > > To: Gupta, Suraj <Suraj.Gupta2@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Pandey, Radhey Shyam
> > > <radhey.shyam.pandey@xxxxxxx>; andrew+netdev@xxxxxxx;
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> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 2/2] net: axienet: Add support for
> > > 2500base-X only configuration.
> > >
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> > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 02:25:27PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > > > > +   /* AXI 1G/2.5G ethernet IP has following synthesis options:
> > > > > > > +    * 1) SGMII/1000base-X only.
> > > > > > > +    * 2) 2500base-X only.
> > > > > > > +    * 3) Dynamically switching between (1) and (2), and is not
> > > > > > > +    * implemented in driver.
> > > > > > > +    */
> > >
> > > > - Keeping previous discussion short, identification of (3) depends
> > > > on how user implements switching logic in FPGA (external GT or RTL
> > > > logic). AXI 1G/2.5G IP provides only static speed selections and
> > > > there is no standard register to communicate that to software.
> > >
> > > So if anybody has synthesised it as 3) this change will break their system?
> > >
> > >         Andrew
> >
> > It will just restrict their system to (2)
>
> Where as before, it was doing SGMII/1000base-X only. So such systems break?
>
>         Andrew

If the user wants (3), they need to add their custom FPGA logic which anyway will require additional driver changes. (3) was not completely supported by existing driver.





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