| 23 Jun 2025 |
 emily | there are already lower-power PHY chips, they're just not in anything | 11:47:55 |
| emily | * there are already lower-power 10GBASE-T PHY chips, they're just not in anything | 11:48:00 |
 Ramses 🇵🇸 | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241126022515.4043-6-hau@realtek.com/ My kernel mailing list search-foo is clearly not as good as yours, because I did search for that. How do you search in the mailing list? With the search field on lore, or in your mail client? | 12:02:54 |
 K900 | Just typed "rtl8157" into the search box on lore | 12:03:11 |
| K900 | And got a hit | 12:03:15 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | Thanks in any case, I'll try applying those patches | 12:03:18 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | Hmm, I put 8157 and didn't find anything | 12:03:37 |
| K900 | Yeah it tokenizes weird | 12:03:46 |
| K900 | Sometimes | 12:03:54 |
 @emma:rory.gay | 
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| @emma:rory.gay | offtopic but isnt that supposed to go into linux-firmware? :P | 12:04:46 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | Good to know :) | 12:04:52 |
| K900 | It depends, kinda | 12:05:01 |
| K900 | There's a lot of hardcoded small firmware like that in the kernel already | 12:05:09 |
| K900 | You can check the linux-libre sources to find all the random shit like this they delete | 12:05:28 |
| @emma:rory.gay | not sure that counts as small, seems to be multiple KBytes | 12:05:30 |
| K900 | Well the amdgpu firmware is like 500M | 12:05:53 |
| K900 | (combined) | 12:05:55 |
| K900 | So this is pretty small | 12:06:04 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | Also, what am I missing here, this patch series is patching drivers/usb/eth/r8152.c but the actual driver is at drivers/net/usb/r8152.c. Am I missing something, or did they move stuff in their tree? I don't see a move in the upstream linux tree | 14:18:09 |
| K900 | I think there might be some previous patches required? I don't really know, I just found it like that | 14:20:43 |
| K900 | I think r8152 started off as PCIe though | 14:20:54 |
| K900 | Though it looks like there are RTL8152 USB devices too | 14:21:47 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | The patch is for u-boot, not for linux, but both have a driver for these chips | 14:27:30 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | Not sure if it's exactly the same driver | 14:27:44 |
| K900 | Oh god | 14:30:09 |
| Ramses 🇵🇸 | And there doesn't seem to be a patch submitted to linux. I guess I'll try to see if the patches apply to the linux driver as well | 14:32:14 |
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| Ramses 🇵🇸 | Seems like the linux and u-boot drivers diverged considerably, so there doesn't seem to be any patches out for this chip on linux currently | 15:22:59 |
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