Re: [PATCH devicetree] arm64: dts: ls1028a: mark internal links between Felix and ENETC as capable of flow control

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Tue Oct 05 2021 - 02:01:37 EST


On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 02:52:26PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The internal Ethernet switch suffers from erratum A-050484 ("Ethernet
> flow control not functional on L2 switch NPI port when XFH is used").
> XFH stands for "Extraction Frame Header" - which basically means the
> default "ocelot" DSA tagging protocol.
>
> However, the switch supports one other tagging protocol - "ocelot-8021q",
> and this is not subject to the erratum above. So describe the hardware
> ability to pass PAUSE frames in the device tree, and let the driver
> figure out whether it should use flow control on the CPU port or not,
> depending on whether the "ocelot" or "ocelot-8021q" tagging protocol is
> being used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!