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charset="utf-8" This documentation aims at describing the main goal of the phy_port infrastructure. Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier --- Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 + 3 files changed, 113 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/= index.rst index ac90b82f3ce9..f60acc06e3f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ Contents: packet_mmap phonet phy-link-topology + phy-port pktgen plip ppp_generic diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst b/Documentation/networki= ng/phy-port.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6d9d46ebe438 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. _phy_port: + +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +Ethernet ports +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +This document is a basic description of the phy_port infrastructure, +introduced to represent physical interfaces of Ethernet devices. + +Without phy_port, we already have quite a lot of information about what the +media-facing interface of a NIC can do and looks like, through the +:c:type:`struct ethtool_link_ksettings ` attribute= s, +which includes : + + - What the NIC can do through the :c:member:`supported` field + - What the Link Partner advertises through :c:member:`lp_advertising` + - Which features we're advertising through :c:member:`advertising` + +We also have info about the number of lanes and the PORT type. These setti= ngs +are built by aggregating together information reported by various devices = that +are sitting on the link : + + - The NIC itself, through the :c:member:`get_link_ksettings` callback + - Precise information from the MAC and PCS by using phylink in the MAC d= river + - Information reported by the PHY device + - Information reported by an SFP module (which can itself include a PHY) + +This model however starts showing its limitations when we consider devices= that +have more than one media interface. In such a case, only information about= the +actively used interface is reported, and it's not possible to know what the +other interfaces can do. In fact, we have very few information about wheth= er or +not there are any other media interfaces. + +The goal of the phy_port representation is to provide a way of representin= g a +physical interface of a NIC, regardless of what is driving the port (NIC t= hrough +a firmware, SFP module, Ethernet PHY). + +Multi-port interfaces examples +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +Several cases of multi-interface NICs have been observed so far : + +Internal MII Mux:: + + +------------------+ + | SoC | + | +-----+ | +-----+ + | +-----+ | |-------------| PHY | + | | MAC |--| Mux | | +-----+ +-----+ + | +-----+ | |-----| SFP | + | +-----+ | +-----+ + +------------------+ + +Internal Mux with internal PHY:: + + +------------------------+ + | SoC | + | +-----+ +-----+ + | +-----+ | |-| PHY | + | | MAC |--| Mux | +-----+ +-----+ + | +-----+ | |-----------| SFP | + | +-----+ | +-----+ + +------------------------+ + +External Mux:: + + +---------+ + | SoC | +-----+ +-----+ + | | | |--| PHY | + | +-----+ | | | +-----+ + | | MAC |----| Mux | +-----+ + | +-----+ | | |--| PHY | + | | +-----+ +-----+ + | | | + | GPIO-------+ + +---------+ + +Double-port PHY:: + + +---------+ + | SoC | +-----+ + | | | |--- RJ45 + | +-----+ | | | + | | MAC |---| PHY | +-----+ + | +-----+ | | |---| SFP | + +---------+ +-----+ +-----+ + +phy_port aims at providing a path to support all the above topologies, by +representing the media interfaces in a way that's agnostic to what's drivi= ng +the interface. the struct phy_port object has its own set of callback ops,= and +will eventually be able to report its own ksettings:: + + _____ +------+ + ( )-----| Port | + +-----+ ( ) +------+ + | MAC |--( ??? ) + +-----+ ( ) +------+ + (_____)-----| Port | + +------+ + +Next steps +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +As of writing this documentation, only ports controlled by PHY devices are +supported. The next steps will be to add the Netlink API to expose these +to userspace and add support for raw ports (controlled by some firmware, a= nd directly +managed by the NIC driver). + +Another parallel task is the introduction of a MII muxing framework to all= ow the +control of non-PHY driver multi-port setups. diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index f1188dc63eac..9a9b9b98cf65 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -9098,6 +9098,7 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-con= nector.yaml F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio* F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ar803x.yaml +F: Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst F: Documentation/networking/phy.rst F: drivers/net/mdio/ F: drivers/net/mdio/acpi_mdio.c --=20 2.49.0