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From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Prasanna Vengateshan <prasanna.vengateshan@microchip.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Woojung.Huh@microchip.com,
	hkallweit1@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vivien.didelot@gmail.com,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 05/10] net: dsa: microchip: add DSA support for microchip lan937x
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 20:00:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210807170009.q2gjoraaheps2tub@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQ6pc6EZRLftmRh3@lunn.ch>

On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 05:40:35PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> I suspect it is a 50/50 roll of a dice what rx and tx actually
> mean. Is it from the perspective of the MAC or the PHY? Luckily,
> rgmii-rxid and rgmii-txid don't appear in DT very often.

I checked an NXP board schematic which has both, and:

When you connect a MAC to a PHY using RGMII, the RXD[3:0] pins of the
MAC connect to the RXD[3:0] pins of the PHY, and the TXD[3:0] goes to
TXD[3:0]. So it is neither the perspective of the MAC nor of the PHY.

When you connect a MAC to a MAC using RGMII, the RXD[3:0] of one MAC
goes to the TXD[3:0] of the other, and vice versa.

Nonetheless, a phy-mode of "rgmii-rxid" always means to the local MAC
that "the RX delays have been dealt with" - either by PCB traces, or a
remote MAC applying TX delay, or the PHY applying RX delay.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-07 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-23 17:30 [PATCH v3 net-next 00/10] net: dsa: microchip: DSA driver support for LAN937x switch Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-23 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 01/10] dt-bindings: net: dsa: dt bindings for microchip lan937x Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-26 22:49   ` Rob Herring
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 02/10] net: dsa: move mib->cnt_ptr reset code to ksz_common.c Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-23 18:53   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 03/10] net: phy: Add support for LAN937x T1 phy driver Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-08-11 17:52   ` Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 04/10] net: dsa: tag_ksz: add tag handling for Microchip LAN937x Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-23 19:23   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 05/10] net: dsa: microchip: add DSA support for microchip lan937x Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-31 15:04   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-07-31 22:05     ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-02 21:33       ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-03 14:43         ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-03 15:05           ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-02 10:45     ` Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-08-02 12:15       ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-02 13:13         ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-02 13:59           ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-02 20:47             ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-03 16:54             ` Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-08-03 23:54               ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-04  9:59                 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-08-04 10:46                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-04 14:28                     ` Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-08-04 14:51                       ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-07 15:40                     ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-07 17:00                       ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]
2021-08-11 17:44                       ` Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-08-11 18:23                         ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-11 20:14                           ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-08-11 20:20                             ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-11 20:22                               ` Andrew Lunn
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 06/10] net: dsa: microchip: add support for phylink management Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-31 15:27   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-03 17:04     ` Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 07/10] net: dsa: microchip: add support for ethtool port counters Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 08/10] net: dsa: microchip: add support for port mirror operations Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-31 15:24   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 09/10] net: dsa: microchip: add support for fdb and mdb management Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-31 15:19   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-07-23 17:31 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 10/10] net: dsa: microchip: add support for vlan operations Prasanna Vengateshan
2021-07-31 15:08   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-02 10:48     ` Prasanna Vengateshan

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