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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:23:10 -0600
From:   George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND..." <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: dsa: add Arrow SpeedChips XRS700x driver

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:09 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> > > > https://www.flexibilis.com/downloads/xrs/SpeedChip_XRS7000_3000_User_Manual.pdf
>
> Section 6.1.4
>
> The forwarding decision is presented in Figure 19. Note that also
> frames coming into a disabled port are received to the buffer memory,
> but because their forwarding decision is not to forward them to any
> port, they are dropped.  This behavior however can be changed, and
> frames can be forwarded from disabled ports to other ports by using
> Inbound Policy (see Chapter 6.1.5).
>
> Sounds promising. And Section 6.1.5:

Indeed, I missed this.

>
> Inbound Policy checks the source and the destination MAC addresses of
> all the received frames. The user can configure through the register
> interface what kind of a treatment should frames with certain source
> or destination MAC addresses get. Many protocols use protocol specific
> multicast MAC addresses and the destination MAC address can therefore
> be used for forwarding those frames to CPU port and not to other
> ports.
>
> Looking at table 36, i think you can add a match for the BPDU
> destination MAC address, and have i forwarded to the CPU port.

I'll give it a try.

>
> Looks like you can add 15 such filters. So you might want to think
> about how you want to use these, what other special packets do you
> want to allow through?

Okay.

>
>             Andrew

Thanks!

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