On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 00:12 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > I think in my case those extra modes only supported in SGMII mode, > > like > > 10 and 100Mbps modes, effectively get filtered out because the MAC > > doesn't support them in the 1000BaseX mode either. > > There are different things here. What ethtool reports, and what is > programmed into the advertise register. Clearly, you don't want it > advertising 10 and 100 modes. If somebody connects it to a 10Half > link > partner, you need auto-get to fail. You don't want auto-neg to > succeed, and then all the frames get thrown away with bad CRCs, > overruns etc. >
Right, I don't know that we have direct control over what the PHY is advertising to the copper side in this case. I think it's based on its auto-magical translation of the 1000BaseX advertisements from the PCS/PMA PHY in this case, where we only ever advertise 1000 modes in 1000BaseX mode (not sure if any other speeds are even defined for those messages). Presumably the 88E1111 is smart enough to only advertise 1000 modes on the copper side when in 1000BaseX mode. > > The auto-negotiation is a bit of a weird thing in this case, as > > there > > are two negotiations occurring, the 1000BaseX between the PCS/PMA > > PHY > > and the module PHY, and the 1000BaseT between the module PHY and > > the > > copper link partner. I believe the 88E1111 has some smarts to delay > > the > > copper negotiation until it gets the advertisement over 1000BaseX, > > uses > > those to figure out its advertisement, and then uses the copper > > link > > partner's response to determine the 1000BaseX response. > > But as far as i know you can only report duplex and pause over > 1000BaseX, not speed, since it is always 1G. > > It would be interesting to run ethtool on the link partner to see > what > it thinks the SFP is advertising. If it just 1000BaseT/Full? Well the device is plugged into a Linux PC on the other end, but unfortunately ethtool doesn't seem to report the link partner advertisements on that adapter, only the host advertisements (Intel 82574L, e1000e). -- Robert Hancock Senior Hardware Designer, Advanced Technologies www.calian.com
