netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bgmac: support Ethernet core on BCM53573 SoCs

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Message-Id: <20160818.233624.1305767093109968469.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     zajec5@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rafal@...ecki.pl, jon.mason@...adcom.com,
        arnd@...db.de, f.fainelli@...il.com, tremyfr@...il.com,
        nbd@...nwrt.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bgmac: support Ethernet core on BCM53573
 SoCs

From: Rafa┅ Mi┅ecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:00:30 +0200

> From: Rafa┅ Mi┅ecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
> 
> BCM53573 is a new series of Broadcom's SoCs. It's based on ARM and can
> be found in two packages (versions): BCM53573 and BCM47189. It shares
> some code with the Northstar family, but also requires some new quirks.
> 
> First of all there can be up to 2 Ethernet cores on this SoC. If that is
> the case, they are connected to two different switch ports allowing some
> more complex/optimized setups. It seems the second unit doesn't come
> fully configured and requires some IRQ quirk.
> 
> Other than that only the first core is connected to the PHY. For the
> second one we have to register fixed PHY (similarly to the Northstar),
> otherwise generic PHY driver would get some invalid info.
> 
> This has been successfully tested on Tenda AC9 (BCM47189B0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafa┅ Mi┅ecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>

Applied.