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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 04:13:13 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support
for 6185
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:53:40PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> All packets passing through a switch of the 6185 family are currently all
> directed to the CPU port. This means that port bridging is software driven.
>
> To enable hardware bridging for this switch family, we need to implement the
> port mapping operations, the FDB operations, and optionally the VLAN operations
> (for 802.1Q and VLAN filtering aware systems).
>
> However this family only has 256 FDBs indexed by 8-bit identifiers, opposed to
> 4096 FDBs with 12-bit identifiers for other families such as 6352. It also
> doesn't have dedicated FID registers for ATU and VTU operations.
>
> This patchset fixes these differences, and enable hardware bridging for 6185.
Hi Vivien
I added a test for in chip 6185 bridging, and it worked as expected.
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Andrew
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