Re: [casper] ROACH2 10GbE implementation parameters

2014-07-23 Thread Jason Manley
though I think these only affect the short link between the FPGA and the vitesse tranceiver anyway, Yep, you've got the right of it. You'll need to tweak the Vitesse PHY through the control interface from software; there is an MDIO interface available, which does work. But we don't have a

Re: [casper] ROACH2 10GbE implementation parameters

2014-07-23 Thread Jack Hickish
Thanks for the info, I will certainly try and get my hands on some new Mellanox firmware before fighting with the vitesse. Cheers, Jack On 23 July 2014 01:04, Jason Manley jman...@ska.ac.za wrote: though I think these only affect the short link between the FPGA and the vitesse tranceiver

Re: [casper] ROACH2 10GbE implementation parameters

2014-07-23 Thread David Hawkins
Hi guys, though I think these only affect the short link between the FPGA and the vitesse tranceiver anyway, Yep, you've got the right of it. You'll need to tweak the Vitesse PHY through the control interface from software; there is an MDIO interface available, which does work. But we don't

Re: [casper] ROACH2 10GbE implementation parameters

2014-07-22 Thread David MacMahon
Can you get any sense of whether the packets are being received by the switch and dropped by the roach vs not being received by the switch in the first place? Can you change any transmission parameters on the switch? FWIW, I think you can set preemph and other such params on the ROACH at

Re: [casper] ROACH2 10GbE implementation parameters

2014-07-22 Thread Jack Hickish
Hey Dave, Judging by the switch diagnostics, everything is making it through the switch and only being dropped at the ROACH RX end. I'm digging through the switch manual at the moment, but haven't found anything too promising looking so far. It would seem that some of the SFP ports on the ROACH

Re: [casper] ROACH2 10GbE implementation parameters

2014-07-22 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Jack, On Jul 22, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Jack Hickish wrote: Judging by the switch diagnostics, everything is making it through the switch and only being dropped at the ROACH RX end. I'm digging through the switch manual at the moment, but haven't found anything too promising looking so far.