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

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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 04:13:13 +0200

> 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>

Series applied to net-next, thanks.

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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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