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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Rafal Ozieblo <rafalo@cadence.com>
Cc: Andrei Pistirica <andrei.pistirica@microchip.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v4 1/2] macb: Add 1588 support in Cadence GEM.
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 12:31:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170102113155.GA16373@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN3PR07MB2516815EDE69ACDCE27F81A3C96F0@BN3PR07MB2516.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:36:10AM +0000, Rafal Ozieblo wrote:
> According Cadence Hardware team:
> "It is just that some customers prefer to have the time in the descriptors as that is provided per frame.
> The registers are simply overwritten when a new event frame is transmitted/received and so software could miss it."
> The question is are you sure that you read timestamp for current frame? (not for the next frame).

AFAICT, having the time stamp in the descriptor is not universally
supported.  Looking at the Xilinx Zynq 7000 TRM, I can't find any
mention of this.

This Cadence IP core is a complete disaster.

Unless someone can tell us how this IP works in all of its
incarnations, this series is going nowhere.

Thanks,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-02 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-14 12:56 [RFC PATCH net-next v4 1/2] macb: Add 1588 support in Cadence GEM Andrei Pistirica
2016-12-14 12:56 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v4 2/2] macb: Enable 1588 support in SAMA5Dx platforms Andrei Pistirica
2016-12-20 16:38   ` Rafal Ozieblo
2016-12-28  8:15 ` [RFC PATCH net-next v4 1/2] macb: Add 1588 support in Cadence GEM Richard Cochran
2016-12-28 13:23 ` Rafal Ozieblo
2017-01-02  9:36 ` Rafal Ozieblo
2017-01-02 11:31   ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2017-01-02 11:43     ` Harini Katakam
2017-01-02 16:03       ` Richard Cochran
2017-01-02 14:47     ` Nicolas Ferre
2017-01-02 16:13       ` Richard Cochran
2017-01-03  5:06         ` Harini Katakam
2017-01-03 10:20           ` Richard Cochran
2017-01-03 10:29           ` Richard Cochran
2017-01-03 10:48             ` Harini Katakam
2017-01-03 10:47           ` Rafal Ozieblo
2017-01-03 11:14             ` Richard Cochran
2017-01-11 14:34               ` Andrei.Pistirica
2017-01-03 14:22             ` Nicolas Ferre

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