Re: [PATCHv2 0/5] Support for Marvell switches with integrated CPUs

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Jan 05 2017 - 08:10:32 EST


> 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.

Andrew