Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] Common SerDes driver for TI's Keystone Platforms

From: [email-masked] (Murali Karicheri)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:05:26 -0400

On 10/21/2015 08:56 AM, WingMan Kwok wrote:
> On TI's Keystone platforms, several peripherals such as the
> gbe ethernet switch, 10gbe ethernet switch and PCIe controller
> require the use of a SerDes for converting SoC parallel data into
> serialized data that can be output over a high-speed electrical
> interface, and also converting high-speed serial input data
> into parallel data that can be processed by the SoC.  The
> SerDeses used by those peripherals, though they may be different,
> are largely similar in functionality and setup.
>
> This patch series provides a SerDes phy driver implementation that can be
> used by the above mentioned peripheral drivers to configure their
> respective SerDeses.
>
> As an example of the using the SerDes driver, this patch series also
> updates the Keystone PCIe host driver to enable and use its SerDes block.
>
> References:
> [1] KeyStone II Architecture Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) User's Guide
>      (http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruho3a/spruho3a.pdf)
>
> v3:
> 	- addresses the following review comments
> 		1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/19/756
> 			-- included sizes.h
> 		2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/19/781
> 			-- updated base on Fengguang Wu's suggestions.
> 		3. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/896
> 			-- clarified here https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/20/512
> 			-- nothing to do.
>
> v2:
> 	- addresses the following review comments on v1:
> 		1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/896
> 			-- this does not address the question:
> 			   "The current code does not do this when compiled,
> 			    which might be a problem for distributors.
> 			    Can you clarify the license?"
> 			-- the question is still under discussion here:
> 			   https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/19/471
> 		2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/895
>
> v1:
> 	- addresses the following review comments
> 		1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/13/803
> 		2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/14/613
> 		3. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/13/818
>
> 	- An update to PCIe dts bindings to enable the PCIe SerDes is
> 	  submitted in a separate patch.
>
> WingMan Kwok (2):
>    phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie
>    PCI: keystone: update to use generic keystone serdes driver
>
>   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/ti-phy.txt |  239 +++
>   drivers/pci/host/pci-keystone.c                  |   24 +-
>   drivers/pci/host/pci-keystone.h                  |    1 +
>   drivers/phy/Kconfig                              |    8 +
>   drivers/phy/Makefile                             |    1 +
>   drivers/phy/phy-keystone-serdes.c                | 2366 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   6 files changed, 2629 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/phy/phy-keystone-serdes.c
>
Kishon, Bjorn

Who will pick this up? Do we have time to get this in 4.4?
-- 
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone