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

[Chris Packham]

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.