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

[Florian Fainelli]

On 01/05/2017 11:46 AM, Chris Packham wrote:
> 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.

I see, we have a similar situation with some of the Broadcom SoCs, the
BCM534xx/BCM5334x have a completely different integrated switching
engine that is not roboswitch compatible.

Thanks for the information, this is still valuable to have this
supported upstream.
-- 
Florian