Re: [PATCH net-next v9 0/4] net: stmmac: Add PCI driver support for BCM8958x

[Jitendra Vegiraju]

Hi Russell,

On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 12:25 AM Russell King (Oracle)
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 02:36:25PM -0700, Jitendra Vegiraju wrote:
> > From: Jitendra Vegiraju <jitendra.vegiraju@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patchset adds basic PCI ethernet device driver support for Broadcom
> > BCM8958x Automotive Ethernet switch SoC devices.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Sorry for suggesting this rather late, but I recently came across
> another stmmac driver in the kernel - drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys.
> This is for XLGMAC, but I wonder whether it may be a better bet for
> this core. Have you looked at it?
>
I wasn't aware of this driver earlier. We are looking into this driver now.
Thanks
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