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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:46:07 +0300
From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
To: jitendra.vegiraju@...adcom.com
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Subject: Re: [net-next v4 0/5] net: stmmac: Add PCI driver support for
 BCM8958x

Hi Jitendra

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:18:13PM -0700, jitendra.vegiraju@...adcom.com wrote:
> From: Jitendra Vegiraju <jitendra.vegiraju@...adcom.com>
> 
> This patchset adds basic PCI ethernet device driver support for Broadcom
> BCM8958x Automotive Ethernet switch SoC devices.
> 
> This SoC device has PCIe ethernet MAC attached to an integrated ethernet
> switch using XGMII interface. The PCIe ethernet controller is presented to
> the Linux host as PCI network device.
> 
> The following block diagram gives an overview of the application.
>              +=================================+
>              |       Host CPU/Linux            |
>              +=================================+
>                         || PCIe
>                         ||
>         +==========================================+
>         |           +--------------+               |
>         |           | PCIE Endpoint|               |
>         |           | Ethernet     |               |
>         |           | Controller   |               |
>         |           |   DMA        |               |
>         |           +--------------+               |
>         |           |   MAC        |   BCM8958X    |
>         |           +--------------+   SoC         |
>         |               || XGMII                   |
>         |               ||                         |
>         |           +--------------+               |
>         |           | Ethernet     |               |
>         |           | switch       |               |
>         |           +--------------+               |
>         |             || || || ||                  |
>         +==========================================+
>                       || || || || More external interfaces
> 
> The MAC block on BCM8958x is based on Synopsis XGMAC 4.00a core. This
> MAC IP introduces new DMA architecture called Hyper-DMA for virtualization
> scalability.
> 
> Driver functionality specific to new MAC (DW25GMAC) is implemented in
> new file dw25gmac.c.
> 
> Management of integrated ethernet switch on this SoC is not handled by
> the PCIe interface.
> This SoC device has PCIe ethernet MAC directly attached to an integrated
> ethernet switch using XGMII interface.
> 
> v3->v4:
>    Based on Serge's questions, received a confirmation from Synopsis that
>    the MAC IP is indeed the new 25GMAC design.
>    Renamed all references of XGMAC4 to 25GMAC.
>    The patch series is rearranged slightly as follows.
>    Patch1 (new): Define HDMA mapping data structure in kernel's stmmac.h
>    Patch2 (v3 Patch1): Adds dma_ops for dw25gmac in stmmac core
>        Renamed new files dwxgmac4.* to dw25gmac.* - Serge Semin
>        Defined new Synopsis version and device id macros for DW25GMAC.
>        Coverted bit operations to FIELD_PREP macros - Russell King
>        Moved hwif.h to this patch, Sparse flagged warning - Simon Horman
>        Defined macros for hardcoded values TDPS etc - Serge Semin
>        Read number of PDMAs/VDMAs from hardware - Serge Semin
>    Patch3 (v3 Patch2): Hooks in hardware interface handling for dw25gmac
>        Resolved user_version quirks questions - Serge, Russell, Andrew
>        Added new stmmac_hw entry for DW25GMAC. - Serge
>        Added logic to override synopsis_dev_id by glue driver.
>    Patch4 (v3 Patch3): Adds PCI driver for BCM8958x device
>        Define bitmmap macros for hardcoded values - Andrew Lunn
>        Added per device software node - Andrew Lunn
>    Patch5(new/split): Adds BCM8958x driver to build system

Thanks for the series update and I'm sorry for abandoning the
v3 discussion. I had to work on another urgent task. I'll get back to
reviewing your patch set on the next week.

-Serge(y)

>    
> v2->v3:
>    Addressed v2 comments from Andrew, Jakub, Russel and Simon.
>    Based on suggestion by Russel and Andrew, added software node to create
>    phylink in fixed-link mode.
>    Moved dwxgmac4 specific functions to new files dwxgmac4.c and dwxgmac4.h
>    in stmmac core module.
>    Reorganized the code to use the existing glue logic support for xgmac in
>    hwif.c and override ops functions for dwxgmac4 specific functions.
>    The patch is split into three parts.
>      Patch#1 Adds dma_ops for dwxgmac4 in stmmac core
>      Patch#2 Hooks in the hardware interface handling for dwxgmac4
>      Patch#3 Adds PCI driver for BCM8958x device
>    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240802031822.1862030-1-jitendra.vegiraju@broadcom.com/
> 
> v1->v2:
>    Minor fixes to address coding style issues.
>    Sent v2 too soon by mistake, without waiting for review comments.
>    Received feedback on this version.
>    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240511015924.41457-1-jitendra.vegiraju@broadcom.com/
> 
> v1:  
>    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240510000331.154486-1-jitendra.vegiraju@broadcom.com/
> 
> Jitendra Vegiraju (5):
>   Add HDMA mapping for dw25gmac support
>   Add basic dw25gmac support to stmmac core
>   Integrate dw25gmac into stmmac hwif handling
>   Add PCI driver support for BCM8958x
>   Add BCM8958x driver to build system
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   8 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig   |  11 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile  |   3 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h  |   2 +
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dw25gmac.c    | 173 ++++++
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dw25gmac.h    |  90 +++
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-brcm.c  | 530 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c    |  31 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/hwif.c    |  25 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/hwif.h    |   1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h  |   1 +
>  include/linux/stmmac.h                        |  50 ++
>  12 files changed, 922 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dw25gmac.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dw25gmac.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-brcm.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

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