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Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support for 6185

From Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support for 6185
Date 2016-04-04 04:20 +0200
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:53:40PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> All packets passing through a switch of the 6185 family are currently all
> directed to the CPU port. This means that port bridging is software driven.
> 
> To enable hardware bridging for this switch family, we need to implement the
> port mapping operations, the FDB operations, and optionally the VLAN operations
> (for 802.1Q and VLAN filtering aware systems).
> 
> However this family only has 256 FDBs indexed by 8-bit identifiers, opposed to
> 4096 FDBs with 12-bit identifiers for other families such as 6352. It also
> doesn't have dedicated FID registers for ATU and VTU operations.
> 
> This patchset fixes these differences, and enable hardware bridging for 6185.

Hi Vivien

I added a test for in chip 6185 bridging, and it worked as expected.

Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

	   Andrew

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[PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support for 6185 Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: protect FID registers access Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: variable number of databases Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: protect SID register access Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: support 256 databases Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: map destination addresses for 6185 Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: enable hardware bridging Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-03-31 23:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support  for 6185 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-04-01 14:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support for 6185 Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-04-01 15:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging support  for 6185 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-04-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net: dsa: mv88e6131: HW bridging  support for 6185 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-04-05 03:40 +0200

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