On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 08:17:24PM -0400, John Fleming wrote:
> Hi all, I have a embedded appliance I bought from a vendor and i'm
> being told to file a RFE for this.
>
> The issue i have is the device has a embedded Marvell switch (88E1514
> ?).
Hi John
1514 is probably a PHY, not a switch. All switches are 88E6XXX.
> LAN1 through LAN6 are part of a single bridge group by default.
> Not sure if that is the correct term because i don't think it was
> created via brctl and doesn't show up in there.
>
> This is what ethtool shows as the driver. Looks like the driver name
> is marvellmod based on lsmod output.
>
> ethtool -i LAN1
> driver: marvell switch port
> version: 1.0
> firmware-version:
> bus-info: switch SMI bus
> supports-statistics: no
> supports-test: no
> supports-eeprom-access: no
> supports-register-dump: no
> supports-priv-flags: no
>
> Also found this
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 3 Aug 15 17:49 /dev/marvell
These all tell me it is using some proprietary driver, not mainline
Linux code.
> Just wondering if anyone can point me to something that could pull
> this information. I don't have any C know how, but if nudged in the
> right direction i think i could figure it out.
You probably need to contact Marvell and ask them about their
proprietary code. We here don't have access to it.
Andrew
