Re: dsa: mv88e6xxx: serdes link without phy

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Oct 01 2020 - 08:37:40 EST


> > Can you run 1000Base-X over these links?
> With some reading "1000base-x" does seem the right thing to say here.
> It's even what is reflected in the CMODE field for those ports.

One more thing you might need is

managed = "in-band-status";

> > If you can, it is probably
> > worth chatting to Russell King about using inband-signalling, and what
> > is needed to make it work without having back to back SFPs. If i
> > remember correctly, Russell has said not much is actually needed.
>
> That'd be ideal. The sticking point seems to be allowing it to have no PHY.

I think there is more to it than that. This is new ground to some
extent.

Andrew