Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/9] net: introduce Qualcomm XPCS support and add Nord Ethernet plumbing

[Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On 9/23/26 03:07, Mohd Ayaan Anwar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an early RFC which adds the XPCS and ETHQOS plumbing required
> to enable 10 Gigabit Ethernet on the Qualcomm Nord SoC. This is the
> first time USXGMII together with an external PCS is being supported by
> the dwmac-qcom-ethqos driver.

There are currently 3 in-flight series that adds glues to DW XPCS and stmmac: 

This one,
The Rockchip one from Coia [1]
The S32 one from Jan [2]


[1] : https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260922200336.2201212-1-coiaprant@gmail.com/
[2] : https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260919-s32g_serdes-v3-0-9d68868c1e89@oss.nxp.com/

MAINTAINERS entry for XPCS says :

SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE ETHERNET XPCS DRIVER
L:      netdev@vger.kernel.org          
S:      Orphan                          
F:      drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.c      
F:      drivers/net/pcs/pcs-xpcs.h      
F:      include/linux/pcs/pcs-xpcs.h    

It would nice if some of you could help maintain the core XPCS driver, and make sure
these series aren't stepping on one another :( I personnaly don't have any XPCS HW
for tests.

You don't have to do it alone, multiple people can co-maintain that :) Maybe
Synopsys folks can also chime in ?

Maxime