netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/4] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add support for ICSSG switch firmware on AM654 PG2.0 EVM

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Message-ID: <fa86c001-e01e-45b8-b6f4-514e8c507f02@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:37:23 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@...com>
Cc: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, srk@...com,
	r-gunasekaran@...com, Pekka Varis <p-varis@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/4] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add support for
 ICSSG switch firmware on AM654 PG2.0 EVM

> Thanks for the offline discussion and explanations. As discussed, we can
> not have one combined firmware to do both switch operations and dual
> emac operations. It is required to have two different firmwares.
> Currently which firmware to load is decided by flag 'is_switch_mode'
> which is set / unset by devlink. I will not use devlink here as asked by
> you. Instead, I'll use the approach suggested by you.
> ndo_open() will load the dual mac firmware. I'll swap to switch firmware
> when the second port is added to the same bridge as the first port.
> 
> I will re-work the changes and post v2 soon.

I'm sceptical you can actually make this work correctly, but lets see
what v2 contains.

     Andrew