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Draft: Consolidate the (lp)GBT(x) handling

Laurent Petre requested to merge feature/consolidate-gbt into main

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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Types of changes

  • 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:

  • 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.

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