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From:   "Sit, Michael Wei Hong" <michael.wei.hong.sit@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [RESEND PATCH net-next v4 0/3] Enable 2.5Gbps speed for stmmac
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Vladimir,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:28 PM
> To: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Sit, Michael Wei Hong <michael.wei.hong.sit@intel.com>;
> Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com; andrew@lunn.ch;
> hkallweit1@gmail.com; kuba@kernel.org;
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> <tee.min.tan@intel.com>; vee.khee.wong@linux.intel.com;
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> Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH net-next v4 0/3] Enable 2.5Gbps
> speed for stmmac
>=20
> Michael,
>=20
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle)
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:50:29PM +0800, Michael Sit Wei Hong
> wrote:
> > > Intel mGbE supports 2.5Gbps link speed by overclocking the
> clock
> > > rate by 2.5 times to support 2.5Gbps link speed. In this mode,
> the
> > > serdes/PHY operates at a serial baud rate of 3.125 Gbps and
> the PCS
> > > data path and GMII interface of the MAC operate at 312.5
> MHz instead of 125 MHz.
> > > This is configured in the BIOS during boot up. The kernel
> driver is
> > > not able access to modify the clock rate for 1Gbps/2.5G mode
> on the
> > > fly. The way to determine the current 1G/2.5G mode is by
> reading a
> > > dedicated adhoc register through mdio bus.
> >
> > How does this interact with Vladimir's "Convert xpcs to
> phylink_pcs_ops"
> > series? Is there an inter-dependency between these, or a
> preferred
> > order that they should be applied?
> >
> > Thanks.
>=20
> My preferred order would be for my series to go in first, if
> possible, because I don't have hardware readily available to test,
> and VK already has tested my patches a few times until they
> reached a stable state.
>=20
> I went through your patches and I think rebasing on top of my
> phylink_pcs_ops conversion should be easy.
>=20
> Thanks.
Sure! I am okay to let you merge your codes and rebase my changes later on
Do let me know when I can start rebasing and send in the next revision