On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 08:55:33AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 11/02/2017 05:43 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > [...] > >>+ > >>+ i = atomic_inc_return(&pki_id); > >>+ pki_dev = platform_device_register_data(&new_dev->dev, > >>+ is_mix ? "octeon_mgmt" : "ethernet-mac-pki", > >>+ i, &platform_data, sizeof(platform_data)); > >>+ dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Created %s %u: %p\n", > >>+ is_mix ? "MIX" : "PKI", pki_dev->id, pki_dev); > > > >Is there any change of these ethernet ports being used to connect to > >an Ethernet switch. We have had issues in the past with these sort of > >platform devices combined with DSA. > > > > There are only two possibilities. The BGX MACs have a multiplexer that > allows them to be connected to either the "octeon_mgmt" MIX packet > processor, or to the "ethernet-mac-pki" PKI/PKO packet processor. The SoCs > supported by these drivers do not contain any hardware that would be > considered an "Ethernet switch". Hi David I was thinking of an external Ethernet switch. You generally connect via RGMII to a port of the switch. http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.9.60/source/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt Andrew -- 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
