On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:09:44AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:40:31AM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:31:13PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > > From: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk>
> > >
> > > A bitrate of 255 is special, it means the bitrate is encoded in
> > > byte 66 in units of 250MBaud. Add support for parsing these bit
> > > rates.
> >
> > Hi Russell,
> >
> > it seems from the code either that 0 is also special or its
> > handling has been optimised. Perhaps that would be worth mentioning
> > in the changelog too.
>
> The text of SFF8472 rev 12.2:
>
> 5.7 BR, nominal [Address A0h, Byte 12]
> The nominal bit (signaling) rate (BR, nominal) is specified in units of
> 100MBd, rounded off to the nearest 100MBd. The bit rate includes those
> bits necessary to encode and delimit the signal as well as those bits
> carrying data information. A value of FFh indicates the bit rate is
> greater than 25.0Gb/s and addresses 66 and 67 are used to determine
> bit rate. A value of 0 indicates that the bit rate is not specified and
> must be determined from the transceiver technology. The actual
> information transfer rate will depend on the encoding of the data, as
> defined by the encoding value.
>
> 8.4 BR, max [Address A0h, Byte 66]
> If address 12 is not set to FFh, the upper bit rate limit at which the
> transceiver will still meet its specifications (BR, max) is specified
> in units of 1% above the nominal bit rate. If address 12 is set to FFh,
> the nominal bit (signaling) rate (BR, nominal) is specified in units of
> 250 MBd, rounded off to the nearest 250 MBd. A value of 00h indicates
> that this field is not specified.
>
> 8.5 BR, min [Address A0h, Byte 67]
> If address 12 is not set to FFh, the lower bit rate limit at which the
> transceiver will still meet its specifications (BR, min) is specified in
> units of 1% below the nominal bit rate. If address 12 is set to FFh, the
> limit range of bit rates specified in units of +/- 1% around the nominal
> signaling rate. A value of zero indicates that this field is not
> specified.
>
> So I guess you could have a br_nom == 0 (meaning it should be derived
> from other information) but max/min != 0 - which would be complex to
> implement, and means that we're doing significant interpretation of
> the contents.
Thanks Russell,
tricky indeed. My suggestion is that something like the last paragraph
be included in the changelog. But if you feel otherwise I won't push the
issue any further.
>
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk>
> > > ---
> > > sfpid.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> > > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/sfpid.c b/sfpid.c
> > > index a1753d3a535f..71f0939c6282 100644
> > > --- a/sfpid.c
> > > +++ b/sfpid.c
> > > @@ -328,11 +328,24 @@ void sff8079_show_all(const __u8 *id)
> > > {
> > > sff8079_show_identifier(id);
> > > if (((id[0] == 0x02) || (id[0] == 0x03)) && (id[1] == 0x04)) {
> > > + unsigned int br_nom, br_min, br_max;
> > > +
> > > + if (id[12] == 0) {
> > > + br_nom = br_min = br_max = 0;
> > > + } else if (id[12] == 255) {
> > > + br_nom = id[66] * 250;
> > > + br_max = id[67];
> > > + br_min = id[67];
> > > + } else {
> > > + br_nom = id[12] * 100;
> > > + br_max = id[66];
> > > + br_min = id[67];
> > > + }
> > > sff8079_show_ext_identifier(id);
> > > sff8079_show_connector(id);
> > > sff8079_show_transceiver(id);
> > > sff8079_show_encoding(id);
> > > - sff8079_show_value_with_unit(id, 12, "BR, Nominal", 100, "MBd");
> > > + printf("\t%-41s : %u%s\n", "BR, Nominal", br_nom, "MBd");
> > > sff8079_show_rate_identifier(id);
> > > sff8079_show_value_with_unit(id, 14,
> > > "Length (SMF,km)", 1, "km");
> > > @@ -348,8 +361,8 @@ void sff8079_show_all(const __u8 *id)
> > > sff8079_show_ascii(id, 40, 55, "Vendor PN");
> > > sff8079_show_ascii(id, 56, 59, "Vendor rev");
> > > sff8079_show_options(id);
> > > - sff8079_show_value_with_unit(id, 66, "BR margin, max", 1, "%");
> > > - sff8079_show_value_with_unit(id, 67, "BR margin, min", 1, "%");
> > > + printf("\t%-41s : %u%s\n", "BR margin, max", br_max, "%");
> > > + printf("\t%-41s : %u%s\n", "BR margin, min", br_min, "%");
> > > sff8079_show_ascii(id, 68, 83, "Vendor SN");
> > > sff8079_show_ascii(id, 84, 91, "Date code");
> > > }
> > > --
> > > 2.7.4
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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