Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: macb: Add new property for PS SGMII only

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 09:21:02 EST


On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:45:05AM +0530, Harini Katakam wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 8:26 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 03:10:32PM +0530, Harini Katakam wrote:
> > > Add a new property to indicate when PS SGMII is used with NO
> > > external PHY on board.
> >
> > Hi Harini
> >
> > What exactly is you use case? Are you connecting to a Ethernet switch?
> > To an SFP cage with a copper module?
>
> Yes, an SFP cage is the common HW target for this patch.

Hi Harini

So you have a copper PHY in the SFP cage. It will talk SGMII
signalling to your PS SGMII. When that signalling is complete i would
expect the MAC to raise an interrupt, just as if the SGMII PHY was
soldered on the board. So i don't see why you need this polling?

Andrew