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General refactor on update on HSGMII, BASE-X ecc

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Following the introduction of PON routers with sfp w/o mac (#311), there is a need for a general refactoring to improve SFP identity and communication standards, in particolar:

  • specify better the differences between PHY mmi, MAC mmi and base-X, perhaps with a diagram and with references to linux kernel management.
  • creation of a table with all the various PHY mmi, MAC mmi and base-X and their eeprom values and autosentising, Signaling Rate, Encoding, Rate Identifier , ... and ref SFF-8472 Rev 12.4

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#Fiber_optics

https://members.snia.org/document/dl/26895