netdev - Re: [net-next v5 0/5] net: stmmac: Add PCI driver support for BCM8958x

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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:14:20 +0300
From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
To: jitendra.vegiraju@...adcom.com
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Subject: Re: [net-next v5 0/5] net: stmmac: Add PCI driver support for
 BCM8958x

Hi Jitendra

On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 10:48:10PM -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.
> 
> v4->v5:
>    Summary of changes in this patch series:
>    As suggested by Serge Semin, defined common setup function for dw25gmac.
>    To accommodate early adopter DW25GMAC used in BCM8958x device, provide
>    a mechanism to override snps_id and snps_dev_id used for driver entry
>    matching in hwif.c
> 
>    Patch1:
>      Added plat_stmmacenet_data::snps_id,snps_dev_id fields - Serge Semin
>    Patch2:
>      Define common setup function for dw25gmac_setup() - Serge Semin
>      Support DW25GMAC IPs with varying VDMA/PDMA count - Abhishek Chauhan
>      Allocate and initialize hdma mapping configuration data dynamically
>      based on device's VDMA/PDMA feature capabilities in dw25gmac_setup().
>      Spelling errors in commit log, lower case 0x for hex -Amit Singh Tomar
>    Patch3:
>      Glue support in hwif.c for DW25GMAC in hwif.c - Serge Semin
>      Provide an option to override snps_id and snps_dev_id when the device
>      reports version info not conformant with driver's expectations as is
>      the case with BCM8958x device. - Serge Semin
>    Patch4:
>      Remove setup function in the glue driver - Serge Semin
>      Remove unnecessary calls pci_enable_device() and pci_set_master()
>      in dwxgmac_brcm_pci_resume() - Jakub Kicinski
>      Merge variable definitions to single line - Amit Singh Tomar

Thanks for the update. I'll have a closer look at the series early
next week.

-Serge(y)

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