On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:00:41PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:25:43AM -0400, WingMan Kwok wrote: > >> On TI's Keystone platforms, several peripherals such as the > >> gbe ethernet switch, 10gbe ethether switch and PCIe controller > >> require the use of a SerDes for converting SoC parallel data into > >> serialized data that can be output over a high-speed electrical > >> interface, and also converting high-speed serial input data > >> into parallel data that can be processed by the SoC. The > >> SerDeses used by those peripherals, though they may be different, > >> are largely similar in functionality and setup. > > > > Given that serdes is not specific to TI, should this be specific to > > TI, or should there be an effort to come up with something which > > everyone who has serdes links can make use of? > > > > Serdes comes in multiple different forms: PCIe, 1G SGMII ethernet, > > 1000base-X ethernet, 10g ethernet, SATA... I'd hate to see a > > plethora of SoC specific stuff for this. > > The licensed IP I've seen doesn't provide a standard register > interface, but just signals to the IP block. Same with PLL IP. So > we'll probably get to see vendors continue to differentiate on PHY > register design. :) So what? Network drivers differ radically in register design, yet we still have a standardised interface to network drivers. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
