[3/3,v4] powerpc/t2080rdb: Add T2080RDB board support

Shengzhou.Liu at freescale.com Shengzhou.Liu at freescale.com
Mon Jul 7 20:26:53 EST 2014


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 7:35 AM
> To: Liu Shengzhou-B36685
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [3/3,v4] powerpc/t2080rdb: Add T2080RDB board support
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Shengzhou Liu wrote:
> > +				i2c at 0 {
> > +					#address-cells = <1>;
> > +					#size-cells = <0>;
> > +					reg = <0x0>;
> > +
> > +					sfp at 50 {
> > +						compatible = "optics,sfp";
> > +						reg = <0x50>;
> > +					};
> > +				};
> 
> What is "sfp"?  Please use generic node names when possible.
> 
> I'm not able to easily find what chip this is referring to by googling
> "optics sfp".  I suspect this compatible is too vague -- what is the
> actual part number?  Could you provide a URL to a description of the chip?
> 
> If "optics" is the correct vendor name, it needs to go into vendor-prefixes.txt.
> 
> -Scott
[Shengzhou] SFP is "Small Form-factor Pluggable transceiver" for 10Gpbs optics module.  Actually, there is no a specific vendor for this case, it is a general sfp cage to which we can plug in different optics module from different vendors.  And there is no need to configure it by SW.  


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