Messages in this thread | | | From | Chris Packham <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 0/5] Support for Marvell switches with integrated CPUs | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:46:43 +0000 |
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On 06/01/17 02:10, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> I'd love to see a switchdev driver but it's a huge task (and no I'm not >> committing to writing it). As it stands Marvell ship a switch SDK >> largely executes in userspace with a small kernel module providing some >> linkage to the underlying hardware. > > Is there any similarity to the mv88e6xxx family? > > If it was similar registers, just a different access mechanising, we > could probably extend the mv88e6xxx to support MMIO as well as MDIO.
No the prestera family of devices are considerably more powerful (and complex) than the linkstreet devices.
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