Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/e1000: add minimum support for Broadcom 54616 PHY

[Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>]

00:14.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection
I354 [8086:1f41] (rev 03)

I am not clear on the status of the document I have.  Here is a link to a
similar product: https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/Bufs/AG6248.pdf -- I have
the 7648c which is somewhat similar to the 6248c as far as the "out of
band" ports.

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Chas,
>
> 1, Would you like to use this CLI “lspci -nn | grep Eth” to get the device
> ID of  the NIC?
>
> 2, You mentioned “the doc of the platform”. Is it public? If so, could you
> tell me the link? Just want to understand more about it.
>
> Thanks.
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> Best regards
>
> Wenzhuo Lu
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> *From:* Chas Williams [mailto:3chas3@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2018 1:57 AM
> *To:* Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
> *Cc:* dev@dpdk.org; skhare@vmware.com; Charles (Chas) Williams <
> ciwillia@brocade.com>; Chas Williams <chas3@att.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/e1000: add minimum support for
> Broadcom 54616 PHY
>
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>
> I derived that value by observing what the ixgbe finds when loading on my
> platform.  The docs for the platform say that the attached PHY is a
> Broadcom 54616.  I couldn't find any documentation on this PHY to determine
> what this value is (i.e. is it really some sort of ID string for that
> PHY).    I almost suspect that the ixgbe is reading some registers on the
> PHY that just happen to contain this value after reset.
>
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> Supposedly it's similar to the 54618 but that really doesn't provide much
> more information.  The bnx2x has a driver for the 54618 and nothing that
> looks similar to that string.
>