RE: Management PMA/PMD registers for XAUI
All,
During the March plenary, there was a tentative agreement between
clause 45 and 54 and others (I don't specifically remember who was
in the room at the time) to split the PMA/PMD MDIO registers into
a PMA set and a OMD set. I am planning a technical comment
recommending that action and will be working with Ed Turner and
others on the specifics.
Bill
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At 12:57 PM 4/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>Justin,
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>As currently defined, there is only a single PMA in the stack which is
>attached to the PMD. An XGXS doesn't have a separate PMA sublayer. I think
>we should leave it that way. We already fragment the physical layer into a
>lot of sublayers.
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>Regards,
>Pat
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Justin Gaither [mailto:jgaither@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:19 AM
>To: 802.3ae
>Subject: Management PMA/PMD registers for XAUI
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>When a 10GBase-X PCS is being used as a PHY XGXS, it has a XAUI PMA.
>Should this PMA have all of the Management registers specified (ie. 1.0,
>1.1, 1.2&1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9)? Or are these registers for the
>PMA/PMD that actually tied to the fiber PMD?
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>Regards,
>
>justin
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