On 01/05/2017 11:46 AM, Chris Packham wrote: > On 06/01/17 02:10, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> I'd love to see a switchdev driver but it's a huge task (and no I'm not >>> committing to writing it). As it stands Marvell ship a switch SDK >>> largely executes in userspace with a small kernel module providing some >>> linkage to the underlying hardware. >> >> Is there any similarity to the mv88e6xxx family? >> >> If it was similar registers, just a different access mechanising, we >> could probably extend the mv88e6xxx to support MMIO as well as MDIO. > > No the prestera family of devices are considerably more powerful (and > complex) than the linkstreet devices. I see, we have a similar situation with some of the Broadcom SoCs, the BCM534xx/BCM5334x have a completely different integrated switching engine that is not roboswitch compatible. Thanks for the information, this is still valuable to have this supported upstream. -- Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
