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Message-ID: <49A7EA3D.8070800@mlbassoc.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:27:25 -0700
From: Gary Thomas <gary@...assoc.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Marvell 88E609x switch?
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:19:57AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is there support for this device anywhere? In particular,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the M88E6095 switch.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Not at the moment, but it should be easy enough to add. If your
>>>>>>>>>>>> board already runs on 2.6.28+, I can whip up some patches for you
>>>>>>>>>>>> to try from the docs I have for that part.
>>>>>>>>>>> That would be much appreciated, thanks.
>>>>>>>>>> I noticed that the 6095/6095F are quite similar to the 6131 as far
>>>>>>>>>> as the register set goes. So something along these lines (hacky
>>>>>>>>>> patch, breaks 6131, not for mainline) might just work to detect
>>>>>>>>>> single 6095s (cascading DSA chips is something that needs more work,
>>>>>>>>>> let's get the single-chip case working first).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The other thing you'll need to do is create dsa platform devices
>>>>>>>>>> for your switch chips, a la how it's done in arch/arm/mach-orion5x/
>>>>>>>>>> or arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/ for example -- you need to pass in a struct
>>>>>>>>>> device * for your network device, a struct device * for your mii bus,
>>>>>>>>>> the switch MII address on the MII bus, and names of the individual
>>>>>>>>>> ports (where you'll specify "cpu" for the port on the switch chip that
>>>>>>>>>> the CPU is connected to).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Let me know if this works.
>>>>>>>>> Thanks, I'll give it a try. It will take a little effort
>>>>>>>>> to get setup as I have to work within the open firmware
>>>>>>>>> structure (that's how all the various components are
>>>>>>>>> specified).
>>>>>>>> Right, we don't have OF bindings yet. I guess this would make sense
>>>>>>>> to do generically at some point, since there are quite a few PPC
>>>>>>>> platforms with DSA switch chips.
>>>>>>> Here's what I tried - (patch attached) - a trulyhorrible hack,
>>>>>>> but I've not figured out how to get the correct device pointers
>>>>>>> from the OF world yet. The boot log shows that it's trying, but
>>>>>>> I don't see the DSA layer (M88E690x driver) doing the MII indirection
>>>>>>> that's needed for this device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm probably not starting it up correctly, but I think I followed
>>>>>>> the examples you cited. Any ideas?
>>>>>> "indirection needed for this device" -- does that mean that your
>>>>>> switch chip is configured to use the multi-chip addressing mode?
>>>>>> (It looks like it, as most of the MII addresses return ffff in
>>>>>> their ID registers.) If yes, you should set ->sw_addr to whatever
>>>>>> MII address the chip has been assigned.
>>>>> Much better, my switch seems to be found now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Distributed Switch Architecture driver version 0.1
>>>>> gfar_mdio_read(cf9db400, 1, 0) = 1811
>>>>> gfar_mdio_write(cf9db400, 1, 0, 9a03) = 0
>>>>> gfar_mdio_read(cf9db400, 1, 0) = 1a03
>>>>> gfar_mdio_read(cf9db400, 1, 1) = 953
>>>>> mv88e6131_probe(cf9db400, 1) = 2387
>>>>> eth0: detected a Marvell 88E6095/88E6095F switch
>>>>> ...
>>>>> root@..._target:~ ls /sys/bus/mdio_bus/devices/
>>>>> 24520:01:00 24520:01:02 24520:01:04 24520:01:06
>>>>> 24520:01:01 24520:01:03 24520:01:05 24520:01:07
>>>>>
>>>>> However, the network subsystem still can't locate it. It may be
>>>>> a complication of the OF stuff and how the [gianfar] network
>>>>> device knows what PHY to look at.
>>>>>
>>>>> starting network interfaces...
>>>>> 24520:01 not found
>>>>> eth0: Could not attach to PHY
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, how do I specify the [implicit] route within the switch
>>>>> that connects '24520:01:00' to the CPU port '24520:01:0A' (if
>>>>> there was such a thing)? My boot loader has configured the
>>>>> switch for this path - I've not looked through the log to see
>>>>> what the DSA layer did.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>> Trying the simple/obvious did not work so well:
>>>> Distributed Switch Architecture driver version 0.1
>>>> mv88e6131_probe(cf9db400, 1) = 2387
>>>> eth0: detected a Marvell 88E6095/88E6095F switch
>>>> dsa slave smi: probed
>>>> lan1.2: 24520:01:00 already attached
>>>> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000024
>>> What did you do here?
>> I just tried to force it by making it probe '24520:01:00'
>> instead of '24520:01'
>>
>>> Also, can you show me what you're filling the dsa platform data
>>> structure with?
>> struct dsa_platform_data _switch_data = {
>> .port_names[0] = "lan1.1",
>> .port_names[1] = "lan1.2",
>> .port_names[2] = "lan1.3",
>> .port_names[3] = "lan1.4",
>> .port_names[4] = "lan1.5",
>> .port_names[5] = "lan1.6",
>> .port_names[6] = "lan1.7",
>> .port_names[7] = "lan1.8",
>> .port_names[10] = "cpu",
>> .sw_addr = 1,
>> };
>
> Just this should do the trick. So what's not working -- are the
> interfaces not showing up? Or packet RX/TX isn't working? Or
> something else?
It won't let me bring up eth0 (my scripts try to run DHCP):
starting network interfaces...
24520:01 not found
eth0: Could not attach to PHY
ip: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
As for the other devices, they do show up if I let eth0 try to
attach to the PHY:
root@..._target:~ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compresse
d
lo: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
eth1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.3: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.4: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.5: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.6: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.7: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
lan1.8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
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