[Linux-ATM-General] Fw: MPHY supported in mpc8260sar

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

I guess, lower 16 PHYs. With some enhancement to the driver it
could reach 32 (additions for the upper 16 PHY lookup table).

The limitation is that there is still only one VP (0) and 64 VCs
available without any change to the driver's code.

I guess, if used for aDSL, 16 PHYs will be the maximum
number of supported PHYs, because of BW limitations. Do not
forget that UTOPIA can support 155 Mbps... but this is in the
ideal case, where there is single PHY0 with single priority 0
used.

I guess (not sure yet) if you would like to support 16 aDSL
PHYs, there will be theoretically no more than 1.5 Mbps per
PHY BW achievement (PHYs 0, 1, 2 and 3 excluded from
this, they have HW 0 cell insertion mechanismus, so they are
able to achieve much faster output). Just assumption.

Regards,
Zoran

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilad Rom" <gilad at romat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: MPHY supported in mpc8260sar

> And exactly how many PHY's is that?
>
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:31, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote:
> > I enhanced 8260 ATM driver... now I am able to support maximum
> > number of PHYs by mpc8260. With up to eight priorities per each PHY.
> >
> > Just an additional info... :)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Zoran Stojsavljevic" <zoransto at dkts.co.yu>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:09 AM
> > Subject: MPHY supported in mpc8260sar
> >
> > > I finally achieved multiphy mpc8260sar (with some limitations).
> > > The driver is able to support 8 PHYs (one PHY per unique
> > > priority). The driver is developed out of Peter's McCormick single
> > > PHY version.
> > >
> > > For some unknow reason I could NOT achieve MPHY support with only
> > > one priority (for example highest PRIority 0). In order to make
> > > MPHY to work correctly I assigned a unique priority per PHY.
> > > With 8 PHYs the mapping looks like: PHY0/PRIO0, PHY1/PRIO1...
> > > PHY7/PRIO7, eg. PHYx/PRIOx, where x is in range [0..7]!
> > >
> > > The another limitation is that I did NOT fix the VP range, eg. I
> > > am using only VP0 (one VP) with different VCs, where least three
> > > (3) significant bits of each VC assume the selected PHY. In other
> > > words, I am using 8 nas interfaces, and VCs (decimal radix) from
> > > 40 (0x28) to 47 (0x2F), where VC 40 is attached to PHY0, VC 41
> > > to PHY1... VC47 to PHY7. While issuing ATM xmit command I am
> > > deriving least three significant bits of currently processed VC
> > > and I'm putting them to the COMM_INFO words (offset 0x86, field
> > > PHY#), described in section 30.14 of MPC8260 PowerQUICC II Family
> > > Reference Manual (Revision 1, date 05/2003).
> > >
> > > If you all find this info of (some) interest, I can do the patch
> > > (against latest version in CVS) so we can store this limited
> > > edition of the MPHY version under the mpc8260sar driver project.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alex Zeffertt" <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:41 PM
> > > Subject: Announcement: MPHY now supported in mpc860sar
> > >
> > > > Just a quick note to say that multi-phy is now supported by the
> > > > mpc860sar ATM driver, thanks to a patch by Rodolfo Giometti.

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