On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:11:24PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 10:42 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > The 1000X definitions are for 1000BaseX (fiber), not for 1000BaseT > > (copper). > > > > I have a working setup here with gigabit pause. The pause bits come > > from bits 11 and 10, just like for older copper PHYs. Your link > > parter is indicating that it has no pause capability. That means > > you can't use pause. > > Interesting. I tried and it worked :-) Could be something funny in > the config of our switches.
It could be that the switch supports pause frames, but it's not advertised because there's some corner cases that it doesn't work. I know that SolidRun have run into switches that corrupt ethernet frames when pause is used. (I don't know off hand which they are, but I could ask the question.) -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.
