From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Christopher S . Hall" <christopher.s.hall@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] PTP: add support for Intel's TGPIO controller
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:20:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190719132021.GC24930@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h87isci5.fsf@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:35:14AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:20:33AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >> TGPIO is a new IP which allows for time synchronization between systems
> >> without any other means of synchronization such as PTP or NTP. The
> >> driver is implemented as part of the PTP framework since its features
> >> covered most of what this controller can do.
> >
> > Hi Felipe
> >
> > Given the name TGPIO, can it also be used for plain old boring GPIO?
>
> not really, no. This is a misnomer, IMHO :-) We can only assert output
> pulses at specified intervals or capture a timestamp of an external
> signal.
Hi Felipe
So i guess Intel Marketing wants to call it a GPIO, but between
engineers can we give it a better name?
> > Also, is this always embedded into a SoC? Or could it actually be in a
> > discrete NIC?
>
> Technically, this could be done as a discrete, but it isn't. In any
> case, why does that matter? From a linux-point of view, we have a device
> driver either way.
I've seen a lot of i210 used with ARM SoCs. How necessary is the tsc
patch? Is there an architecture independent alternative?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-19 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-16 7:20 [RFC PATCH 0/5] PTP: add support for Intel's TGPIO controller Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] x86: tsc: add tsc to art helpers Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 7:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-15 5:57 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-08-15 14:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-10-01 10:24 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-10-17 11:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-10-17 12:01 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] PTP: add a callback for counting timestamp events Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] PTP: implement PTP_EVENT_COUNT_TSTAMP ioctl Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] PTP: Add flag for non-periodic output Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 16:39 ` Richard Cochran
2019-07-17 6:49 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-17 17:36 ` Richard Cochran
2019-07-18 8:59 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-18 16:41 ` Richard Cochran
2019-08-13 7:53 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-08-13 17:48 ` Richard Cochran
2019-08-13 18:06 ` Richard Cochran
2019-08-14 7:05 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 7:20 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] PTP: Add support for Intel PMC Timed GPIO Controller Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 19:14 ` Shannon Nelson
2019-07-17 6:51 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-16 16:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] PTP: add support for Intel's TGPIO controller Richard Cochran
2019-07-17 6:52 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-17 17:39 ` Richard Cochran
2019-07-18 8:58 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-18 19:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-07-19 7:35 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-07-19 13:20 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-08-13 7:50 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-08-13 17:49 ` Richard Cochran
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