> i2cdetect has found three i2c slaves (identical layout in both SFP's)
> at addresses 0x50, 0x51 and 0x56.
> What are they? EEPROM, DDM and "MDIO over i2c" ?
> The SFP's likely lack a proper SFP MSA data structure.
0x50 and 0x51 are EEPROM like. See drivers/net/phy/sfp.c. The standard
at24 EEPROM driver can also read it. And so should the SFP code in the
igb driver!
> Does this make sense as some sort of proprietary standard
> (Cisco, if I should take the vendor's label at face value),
> or is this likely some "3rd-party innovation thinko", not worth
> implementing?
See if drivers/net/phy/mdio-i2c.c is useful. I'm just guessing here.
Andrew
