Hi Andrew,
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 7:50 PM
>To: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.man...@nxp.com>
>Cc: David S . Miller <da...@davemloft.net>; devicet...@vger.kernel.org;
>Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.bell...@bootlin.com>; net...@vger.kernel.org;
>Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.margin...@nxp.com>; linux-
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><allan.niel...@microsemi.com>; Rob Herring <robh...@kernel.org>; linux-
>arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/6] arm64: dts: fsl: ls1028a: Add Felix switch
>port
>DT node
>
>On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 06:38:50PM +0300, Claudiu Manoil wrote:
>> The switch device features 6 ports, 4 with external links
>> and 2 internally facing to the ls1028a SoC and connected via
>> fixed links to 2 internal enetc ethernet controller ports.
>
>Hi Claudiu
>
>> + switch@0,5 {
>> + compatible = "mscc,felix-switch";
>> + reg = <0x000500 0 0 0 0>;
>> +
>> + ethernet-ports {
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>> +
>> + /* external ports */
>> + switch_port0: port@0 {
>> + reg = <0>;
>> + };
>> + switch_port1: port@1 {
>> + reg = <1>;
>> + };
>> + switch_port2: port@2 {
>> + reg = <2>;
>> + };
>> + switch_port3: port@3 {
>> + reg = <3>;
>> + };
>> + /* internal to-cpu ports */
>> + port@4 {
>> + reg = <4>;
>> + fixed-link {
>> + speed = <1000>;
>> + full-duplex;
>> + };
>> + };
>> + port@5 {
>> + reg = <5>;
>> + fixed-link {
>> + speed = <1000>;
>> + full-duplex;
>> + };
>> + };
>> + };
>> + };
>
>This sounds like a DSA setup, where you have SoC ports connected to
>the switch. With DSA, the CPU ports of the switch are special. We
>don't create netdev's for them, the binding explicitly list which SoC
>interface they are bound to, etc.
>
>What model are you using here? I'm just trying to understand the setup
>to ensure it is consistent with the swichdev model.
>
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.
Thanks for the review.
Claudiu
