Draft: Consolidate the (lp)GBT(x) handling
Description
This MR aims at improving the handling of the GBT chips, in the most general sense:
- Link status monitoring
- Robustness of the IC communication
- Availability of IC reads and writes, including masked writes
- Support for the GBTx, lpGBT v0, and lpGBT v1
- Rebase and inclusion of MR opened since too long (at first !241)
- Optionally support for VTRx+ configuration
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Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) -
New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) -
Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
Checklist:
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My code follows the code style of this project. -
My change requires a change to the documentation. -
I have updated the documentation accordingly. -
I have read the CONTRIBUTING document. -
I have added tests to cover my changes. -
All new and existing tests passed.