Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Initial driver for Synopsys DWC XLGMAC

[Jie Deng]

On 2016/12/8 23:59, Alexandre Torgue wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 12/07/2016 04:57 AM, Jie Deng wrote:
>> This series provides the support for 25/40/50/100 GbE
>> devices using Synopsys DWC Enterprise Ethernet (XLGMAC).
>
> Can you explain which GMAC are you targeted ?
>
> A driver which support some Synopsys GMAC IP already exists. It support GMAC
> 3.5, 3.7, 4.0, 4.10 versions. You can find it in:
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/. When I look at all files your gonna to
> create, it looks like to ones in stmmac driver so maybe you could easily add
> your IP inside stmmac driver.
>
> Note that an other driver is existing for synopsys GMAC 4.0 IP. it is located
> in drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc_eth_qos.c and coming from AXIS guys. A
> task is ongoing to only have stmmac driver so it should be harmful to create a
> new one.
>
> Regards
> Alex
>
I didn't target any version of GMAC IP. GMAC IP (QoS IP) currently has two
drivers in mainline
drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc_eth_qos.c
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/

XGMAC IP: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe

XLGMAC IP: no driver in mainline at present

For more info about Synopsys Ethernet IP, Please check:
http://www.synopsys.com/IP/InterfaceIP/Ethernet/Pages/default.aspx

I think it should be better to integrate above drivers into
drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/. This helps to reuse codes and makes maintenance
easier. I prefer to choose AMD XGBE as a basis. This driver integrated Synopsys
internal driver and had most features supported. What do you think about this ? 
>
>
>
>>
>> The first patch adds support for Synopsys XLGMII.
>> The second patch provides the initial driver for Synopsys XLGMAC
>>
>> The driver has three layers by refactoring AMD XGBE.
>>
>> dwc-eth-xxx.x
>>   The DWC ethernet core layer (DWC ECL). This layer contains codes
>> can be shared by different DWC series ethernet cores
>>
>> dwc-xxx.x (e.g. dwc-xlgmac.c)
>>   The DWC MAC HW adapter layer (DWC MHAL). This layer contains
>> special support for a specific MAC. e.g. currently, XLGMAC.
>>
>> xxx-xxx-pci.c xxx-xxx-plat.c (e.g. dwc-xlgmac-pci.c)
>>   The glue adapter layer (GAL). Vendors who adopt Synopsys Etherent
>> cores can develop a glue driver for their platform.
>>
>> Jie Deng (2):
>>   net: phy: add extension of phy-mode for XLGMII
>>   net: ethernet: Initial driver for Synopsys DWC XLGMAC
>>
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt |    1 +
>>  MAINTAINERS                                        |    6 +
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/Kconfig              |    2 +
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/Makefile             |    1 +
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/Kconfig          |   37 +
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/Makefile         |    9 +
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-dcb.c    |  228 ++
>>  .../net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-debugfs.c    |  328 +++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-desc.c   |  715 +++++
>>  .../net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-ethtool.c    |  567 ++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-hw.c     | 3098 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-mdio.c   |  252 ++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-net.c    | 2319 +++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-ptp.c    |  216 ++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-regacc.h | 1115 +++++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth.h        |  738 +++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-xlgmac-pci.c |  538 ++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-xlgmac.c     |  135 +
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-xlgmac.h     |   85 +
>>  include/linux/phy.h                                |    3 +
>>  20 files changed, 10393 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/Kconfig
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-dcb.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-debugfs.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-desc.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-ethtool.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-hw.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-mdio.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-net.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-ptp.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth-regacc.h
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-eth.h
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-xlgmac-pci.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-xlgmac.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsys/dwc/dwc-xlgmac.h
>>