Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] ethernet: m10-retimer: add support for retimers on Intel MAX 10 BMC

2020-10-24 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 10:36:36AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 10/24/20 9:39 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:03:51AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: > >> On 10/23/20 1:45 AM, Xu Yilun wrote: > >>> This driver supports the ethernet retimers (Parkvale) for the Intel PAC > >>> (Programma

Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] ethernet: m10-retimer: add support for retimers on Intel MAX 10 BMC

2020-10-24 Thread Tom Rix
On 10/24/20 9:39 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:03:51AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: >> On 10/23/20 1:45 AM, Xu Yilun wrote: >>> This driver supports the ethernet retimers (Parkvale) for the Intel PAC >>> (Programmable Acceleration Card) N3000, which is a FPGA based Smart NIC. >> Pa

Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] ethernet: m10-retimer: add support for retimers on Intel MAX 10 BMC

2020-10-24 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:03:51AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 10/23/20 1:45 AM, Xu Yilun wrote: > > This driver supports the ethernet retimers (Parkvale) for the Intel PAC > > (Programmable Acceleration Card) N3000, which is a FPGA based Smart NIC. > > Parkvale is a code name, it would be bette

Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] ethernet: m10-retimer: add support for retimers on Intel MAX 10 BMC

2020-10-24 Thread Tom Rix
On 10/23/20 1:45 AM, Xu Yilun wrote: > This driver supports the ethernet retimers (Parkvale) for the Intel PAC > (Programmable Acceleration Card) N3000, which is a FPGA based Smart NIC. Parkvale is a code name, it would be better if the public name was used. As this is a physical chip that coul

[RFC PATCH 4/6] ethernet: m10-retimer: add support for retimers on Intel MAX 10 BMC

2020-10-23 Thread Xu Yilun
This driver supports the ethernet retimers (Parkvale) for the Intel PAC (Programmable Acceleration Card) N3000, which is a FPGA based Smart NIC. Parkvale is an Intel(R) Ethernet serdes transceiver chip that supports up to 100G transfer. On Intel PAC N3000 there are 2 Parkvale chips managed by the