linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: vsc73xx: add port_stp_state

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZ514z3Y0LP0iqN0zyc5Tgo7n8O3XHTNVWC0BrnPPjM2w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:27:14 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: vsc73xx: add port_stp_state_set function

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:33 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:

> > +     struct vsc73xx *vsc = ds->priv;
> > +     /* FIXME: STP frames isn't forwarded at this moment. BPDU frames are
> > +      * forwarded only from to PI/SI interface. For more info see chapter
> > +      * 2.7.1 (CPU Forwarding) in datasheet.
>
> Do you mean the CPU never gets to see the BPDU frames?
>
> Does the hardware have any sort of packet matching to trap frames to
> the CPU? Can you match on the destination MAC address
> 01:80:C2:00:00:00 ?

The hardware contains an embedded Intel 8054 CPU that can
execute programs to do pretty much anything.

The bad news: it requires a custom SDK thingy that we do not
have access to.

So far we used the chips in a bit of vanilla mode, which is all I
have ever seen in the systems we have and it can't do much,
not even add a helpful frame tag, but as can be seen from the
patches it can do VLAN...

Yours,
Linus Walleij