On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > 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. >
I thought this might be the case from poking around Marvell's website. >> 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. > I wondered this as well. I poked around the source tree a bit before asking here. >> 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 Well, thanks for taking the time to look.I did register on Marvell's website, however i'm pretty sure that won't go anywhere. Anyway, thanks again!
