On 24/06/2019 18:24:31+0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 05:23:45PM +0200, Allan W. Nielsen wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > The 06/24/2019 16:26, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > Yeah, there are 2 ethernet controller ports (managed by the enetc > > > > > driver) > > > > > connected inside the SoC via SGMII links to 2 of the switch ports, > > > > > one of > > > > > these switch ports can be configured as CPU port (with follow-up > > > > > patches). > > > > > > > > > > This configuration may look prettier on DSA, but the main restriction > > > > > here > > > > > is that the entire functionality is provided by the ocelot driver > > > > > which is a > > > > > switchdev driver. I don't think it would be a good idea to > > > > > copy-paste code > > > > > from ocelot to a separate dsa driver. > > > > > > > > > > > > > We should probably make the ocelot driver a DSA driver then... > > > An important part of DSA is being able to direct frames out specific > > > ports when they ingress via the CPU port. Does the silicon support > > > this? At the moment, i think it is using polled IO. > > > > That is supported, it requires a bit of initial configuration of the Chip, > > but > > nothing big (I believe this configuration is part of Claudiu's change-set). > > > > But how do you envision this done? > > > > - Let the existing SwitchDev driver and the DSA driver use a set of common > > functions. > > - Convert the existing Ocelot driver from SwitchDev to DSA > > - Fork (copy) the existing driver of Ocelot, and modify it as needed for the > > Felix driver > > > > My guess is the first one, but I would like to understand what you have in > > mind. > > I don't know the various architectures the switch is used in. But it > does seem like a core library, and then a switchdev wrapper for Ocelot > and a DSA wrapper for Felix would make sense.
Ocelot could also be used in a DSA setting where one port can be connected to an external MAC and be used to inject/extract frames to/from any other ports. In that case, the IFH would serve as the DSA tag. -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
