netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: vsc73xx: add port_stp_state

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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:21:28 +0300
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Pawel Dembicki <paweldembicki@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: vsc73xx: add port_stp_state_set
 function

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:33 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
> 
> > > +     struct vsc73xx *vsc = ds->priv;
> > > +     /* FIXME: STP frames isn't forwarded at this moment. BPDU frames are
> > > +      * forwarded only from to PI/SI interface. For more info see chapter
> > > +      * 2.7.1 (CPU Forwarding) in datasheet.
> >
> > Do you mean the CPU never gets to see the BPDU frames?
> >
> > Does the hardware have any sort of packet matching to trap frames to
> > the CPU? Can you match on the destination MAC address
> > 01:80:C2:00:00:00 ?
> 
> The hardware contains an embedded Intel 8054 CPU that can
> execute programs to do pretty much anything.
> 
> The bad news: it requires a custom SDK thingy that we do not
> have access to.
> 
> So far we used the chips in a bit of vanilla mode, which is all I
> have ever seen in the systems we have and it can't do much,
> not even add a helpful frame tag, but as can be seen from the
> patches it can do VLAN...
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

But even without involving the iCPU, it should be possible to inject/extract
control packets over the SI interface, using the CPU_CAPT and CPUTXDAT block
registers, correct?

IIUC, ocelot with tag_8021q does just that for STP and PTP, see
ocelot_port_inject_frame() and ocelot_xtr_poll_frame().