Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Linksys EA9500 add port 5 and port 7

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 10:58:41 EST




On 10/7/2020 5:32 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
This router is currently not enabled in Openwrt

You have to be careful here. Not everything runs OpenWRT. You cannot
break backwards compatibility in mainline, simple as that. You need to
ensure that mainline does not see a change in the CPU port.

I don't think this is breaking anything, in premise all 3 CPU interfaces are completely interchangeable, with the notable fact that port 8 happens to have the flow accelerator block available for re-circulation of packets if we wanted to support a NATP offload at some point in the future.

Vivek, maybe you can add ports 5 and 7 in the Device Tree and mark them as disabled for now.
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Florian