RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-10 Thread Tobias Waldekranz
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:41, Mickey Rachamim wrote: >> Until that day arrives, are there any chances of Marvell opening up CPSS in >> the same way DSDT was re-licensed some years back? > The CPSS code is available to everyone on Marvell Extranet (Requires simple > registration process) Right,

Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-10 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 20:31:32 + Mickey Rachamim wrote: > On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:35 PM Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > Sounds like we have 3 people who don't like FW-heavy designs dominating the > > kernel - this conversation can only go one way. > > Marvell, Plvision anything to share? AFAIU

RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-10 Thread Mickey Rachamim
> It will be interesting to see how well you manage to handle the 'split brain' > problem. Right 😊 this is the challenge per each feature to ensure no "register" corruption. The PP itself provides us the right facilities and by driver-wise - we refactoring the driver almost from scratch. > I g

RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-10 Thread Mickey Rachamim
> Until that day arrives, are there any chances of Marvell opening up CPSS in > the same way DSDT was re-licensed some years back? The CPSS code is available to everyone on Marvell Extranet (Requires simple registration process) Anyway, as the transition process will progress - it will be less

Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-09 Thread Andrew Lunn
> Right at the beginning - we implemented PP function into the Kernel > driver like the SDMA operation (This is the RX/TX DMA engine). > We do plan to port more and more PP functions as Kernel drivers > along the way. It will be interesting to see how well you manage to handle the 'split brain' p

RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-09 Thread Tobias Waldekranz
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 20:31, Mickey Rachamim wrote: > Hi Andrew, Jakub, Tobias, > > On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:35 PM Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> Sounds like we have 3 people who don't like FW-heavy designs dominating the >> kernel - this conversation can only go one way. >> Marvell, Plvision

RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support

2021-02-09 Thread Mickey Rachamim
Hi Andrew, Jakub, Tobias, On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:35 PM Jakub Kicinski wrote: > Sounds like we have 3 people who don't like FW-heavy designs dominating the > kernel - this conversation can only go one way. > Marvell, Plvision anything to share? AFAIU the values of Linux kernel are > open