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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:14:20 +0300
From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [net-next v5 0/5] net: stmmac: Add PCI driver support for
BCM8958x
Hi Jitendra
On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 10:48:10PM -0700, jitendra.vegiraju@...adcom.com wrote:
> From: Jitendra Vegiraju <jitendra.vegiraju@...adcom.com>
>
> This patchset adds basic PCI ethernet device driver support for Broadcom
> BCM8958x Automotive Ethernet switch SoC devices.
>
> This SoC device has PCIe ethernet MAC attached to an integrated ethernet
> switch using XGMII interface. The PCIe ethernet controller is presented to
> the Linux host as PCI network device.
>
> The following block diagram gives an overview of the application.
> +=================================+
> | Host CPU/Linux |
> +=================================+
> || PCIe
> ||
> +==========================================+
> | +--------------+ |
> | | PCIE Endpoint| |
> | | Ethernet | |
> | | Controller | |
> | | DMA | |
> | +--------------+ |
> | | MAC | BCM8958X |
> | +--------------+ SoC |
> | || XGMII |
> | || |
> | +--------------+ |
> | | Ethernet | |
> | | switch | |
> | +--------------+ |
> | || || || || |
> +==========================================+
> || || || || More external interfaces
>
> The MAC block on BCM8958x is based on Synopsis XGMAC 4.00a core. This
> MAC IP introduces new DMA architecture called Hyper-DMA for virtualization
> scalability.
>
> Driver functionality specific to new MAC (DW25GMAC) is implemented in
> new file dw25gmac.c.
>
> Management of integrated ethernet switch on this SoC is not handled by
> the PCIe interface.
> This SoC device has PCIe ethernet MAC directly attached to an integrated
> ethernet switch using XGMII interface.
>
> v4->v5:
> Summary of changes in this patch series:
> As suggested by Serge Semin, defined common setup function for dw25gmac.
> To accommodate early adopter DW25GMAC used in BCM8958x device, provide
> a mechanism to override snps_id and snps_dev_id used for driver entry
> matching in hwif.c
>
> Patch1:
> Added plat_stmmacenet_data::snps_id,snps_dev_id fields - Serge Semin
> Patch2:
> Define common setup function for dw25gmac_setup() - Serge Semin
> Support DW25GMAC IPs with varying VDMA/PDMA count - Abhishek Chauhan
> Allocate and initialize hdma mapping configuration data dynamically
> based on device's VDMA/PDMA feature capabilities in dw25gmac_setup().
> Spelling errors in commit log, lower case 0x for hex -Amit Singh Tomar
> Patch3:
> Glue support in hwif.c for DW25GMAC in hwif.c - Serge Semin
> Provide an option to override snps_id and snps_dev_id when the device
> reports version info not conformant with driver's expectations as is
> the case with BCM8958x device. - Serge Semin
> Patch4:
> Remove setup function in the glue driver - Serge Semin
> Remove unnecessary calls pci_enable_device() and pci_set_master()
> in dwxgmac_brcm_pci_resume() - Jakub Kicinski
> Merge variable definitions to single line - Amit Singh Tomar
Thanks for the update. I'll have a closer look at the series early
next week.
-Serge(y)
> [...]
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