Add a README file describing the driver architecture, components and interfaces. Signed-off-by: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6fc07f --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver +============================ + +This file provides documentation for the DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver + + +Contents +======== + Supported Platforms + Architecture Overview + Creating an Ethernet Switch + Features + + + Supported Platforms +=================== +This driver provides networking support for Freescale LS2085A, LS2088A +DPAA2 SoCs. + + +Architecture Overview +===================== +The Ethernet Switch in the DPAA2 architecture consists of several hardware +resources that provide the functionality. These are allocated and +configured via the Management Complex (MC) portals. MC abstracts most of +these resources as DPAA2 objects and exposes ABIs through which they can +be configured and controlled. + +For a more detailed description of the DPAA2 architecture and its object +abstractions see: + drivers/staging/fsl-mc/README.txt + +The Ethernet Switch is built on top of a Datapath Switch (DPSW) object. + +Configuration interface: + + --------------------- + | DPAA2 Switch driver | + --------------------- + . + . + ---------- + | DPSW API | + ---------- + . software + ================= . ============== + . hardware + --------------------- + | MC hardware portals | + --------------------- + . + . + ------ + | DPSW | + ------ + +Driver uses the switch device driver model and exposes each switch port as +a network interface, which can be included in a bridge. Traffic switched +between ports is offloaded into the hardware. Exposed network interfaces +are not used for I/O, they are used just for configuration. This +limitation is going to be addressed in the future. + +The DPSW can have ports connected to DPNIs or to PHYs via DPMACs. + + + [ethA] [ethB] [ethC] [ethD] [ethE] [ethF] + : : : : : : + : : : : : : +[eth drv] [eth drv] [ ethsw drv ] + : : : : : : kernel +======================================================================== + : : : : : : hardware + [DPNI] [DPNI] [============= DPSW =================] + | | | | | | + | ---------- | [DPMAC] [DPMAC] + ------------------------------- | | + | | + [PHY] [PHY] + +For a more detailed description of the Ethernet switch device driver model +see: + Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt + +Creating an Ethernet Switch +=========================== +A device is created for the switch objects probed on the MC bus. Each DPSW +has a number of properties which determine the configuration options and +associated hardware resources. + +A DPSW object (and the other DPAA2 objects needed for a DPAA2 switch) can +be added to a container on the MC bus in one of two ways: statically, +through a Datapath Layout Binary file (DPL) that is parsed by MC at boot +time; or created dynamically at runtime, via the DPAA2 objects APIs. + +Features +======== +Driver configures DPSW to perform hardware switching offload of +unicast/multicast/broadcast (VLAN tagged or untagged) traffic between its +ports. + +It allows configuration of hardware learning, flooding, multicast groups, +port VLAN configuration and STP state. + +Static entries can be added/removed from the FDB. + +Hardware statistics for each port are provided through ethtool -S option. -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
