linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: dts: aspeed: Add Facebook Cloudripper (AST2600) BMC

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:22:29 -0700
From:   Tao Ren <rentao.bupt@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Tao Ren <taoren@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ARM: dts: aspeed: Add Facebook Cloudripper
 (AST2600) BMC

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 04:45:58PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:40:17PM -0700, Tao Ren wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:29:17AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 22:28, <rentao.bupt@...il.com> wrote:
> > > > +&mdio1 {
> > > > +       status = "okay";
> > > 
> > > You're enabling this but it looks like it's unused?
> > 
> > Thanks Joel for the careful review. The MDIO controller is not paired
> > with BMC MAC; instead, it's connected to the MDC/MDIO interface of the
> > on-board switch (whose ports are connected to BMC, Host and front panel
> > management port).
> 
> What switch is it? Is there a DSA driver for it? drivers/net/dsa/*
> Ideally you want Linux to be controlling the switch, in the standard
> linux way.
> 
>      Andrew

Thanks for jumping in. We are using BCM5389 and the MDIO bus is used to
access BCM5389 MDC/MDIO interface in Pseudo-PHY mode.

I didn't know drivers/net/dsa, but let me check out the drivers and see
if it works in the Cloudripper environment.


Thanks,

Tao