[Linux-ATM-General] Announcement: MPHY now supported inmpc860sar

[Alex Zeffertt]

All I know  is that it won't run on the 8260 "as-is".  Sorry, you'll
have to RTFM.  (The chapter on ATM is only ~180 pages :-).

Alex

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 14:03, Gilad Rom wrote:
> Okay. Thanks.
>
> And now for my next question - Do you think the driver
> should run on the 82xx family of chips? (e.g. 8260 and the likes)
> these guys have 2 Utopia-II ports with support for up to 31 devices
> per port. Coupled with this software, it could make for a highly
> efficient DSLAM.
>
> Gilad.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Zeffertt" <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com>
> To: "Gilad Rom" <gilad at romat.com>
> Cc: <linux-atm-general at lists.sourceforge.net>;
> <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Announcement: MPHY now supported
> inmpc860sar
>
>
> > It is currently only supported in SAR mode, and in that mode there is an
> > upper limit of 4 UTOPIA phys.  However, there's no reason that support
> > can't be added for MPHY in ESAR mode - in which the limit is 31 phys.  I
> > suspect that adding such support would be easier now that Rodolfo has
> > done most of the work.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > PS I'm not the expert on this.  Rodolfo's sourceforge username is
> > "zaigor".
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:51, Gilad Rom wrote:
> > > This is very exciting news! (well, for me it is)
> > >
> > > How many PHY's in parallel are we talking about here?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gilad.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alex Zeffertt" <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com>
> > > To: <linux-atm-general at lists.sourceforge.net>;
> > > <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:41 PM
> > > Subject: [Linux-ATM-General] 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.
> > > >
> > > > Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc860sar/
> > > >
> > > > Alex
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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