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Repo for all activity related to the ODSA Bunch of Wires Specification
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Update all 2021 03 30 #84

Closed kenpoulton closed 3 years ago

kenpoulton commented 3 years ago

Still a work in progress; you can see where I am in the table of contents.

I have

We agreed months ago that control would be in a controller via I2C and that the controller could reside on a chiplet or somewhere else. We recently talked about using MIIM (now MDIO) as the on-chip control register interface to the PHY.

We still need to decide: Does control of the PHY go direct from some I2C bumps dedicated to the BoW PHY, or does it come from the Link layer?