From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Wong Vee Khee <vee.khee.wong@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Voon Weifeng <weifeng.voon@intel.com>,
Michael Sit Wei Hong <michael.wei.hong.sit@intel.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: pcs: xpcs: enable skip xPCS soft reset
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:35:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YREvDRkiuScyN8Ws@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210809102229.933748-2-vee.khee.wong@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 06:22:28PM +0800, Wong Vee Khee wrote:
> From: Michael Sit Wei Hong <michael.wei.hong.sit@intel.com>
>
> Unlike any other platforms, Intel AlderLake-S uses Synopsys SerDes where
> all the SerDes PLL configurations are controlled by the xPCS at the BIOS
> level. If the driver perform a xPCS soft reset on initialization, these
> settings will be switched back to the power on reset values.
>
> This changes the xpcs_create function to take in an additional argument
> to check if the platform request to skip xPCS soft reset during device
> initialization.
Why not just call into the BIOS and ask it to configure the SERDES?
Isn't that what ACPI is all about, hiding the details from the OS? Or
did the BIOS writers not add a control method to do this?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-09 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-09 10:22 [PATCH net-next 0/2] Intel AlderLake-S 2.5Gbps link speed support Wong Vee Khee
2021-08-09 10:22 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: pcs: xpcs: enable skip xPCS soft reset Wong Vee Khee
2021-08-09 11:06 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-08-10 23:50 ` Wong Vee Khee
2021-08-09 13:35 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-08-10 23:55 ` Wong Vee Khee
2021-08-11 8:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-08-11 14:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-08-26 11:50 ` Wong Vee Khee
2021-08-09 10:22 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] stmmac: intel: Enable 2.5Gbps on Intel AlderLake-S Wong Vee Khee
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