From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com, arnd@arndb.de,
alexandru.marginean@nxp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
agraf@suse.de, stuyoder@gmail.com, bogdan.purcareata@nxp.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add README
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:17:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170919121755.GB4569@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505811698-7338-6-git-send-email-razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com>
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:01:37PM +0300, Razvan Stefanescu wrote:
> +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.
Hi Razvan
Could you briefly describe how Ethernet frames get from the CPU to the
switch. This is what decided if you should write a plain switchdev
driver, or a DSA driver.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-19 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 9:01 [PATCH 0/6] staging: Introduce DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add APIs for DPSW object Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add ethtool support Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add maintainer for Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add README Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 12:17 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
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2017-10-03 10:07 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2017-10-03 12:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-09-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add TODO Razvan Stefanescu
2017-09-19 12:27 ` [PATCH 0/6] staging: Introduce DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Andrew Lunn
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