Re: [net-next: PATCH 00/12] ACPI support for DSA

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This patchset introduces the support for DSA in ACPI world. A couple of
> words about the background and motivation behind those changes:
> 
> The DSA code is strictly dependent on the Device Tree and Open Firmware
> (of_*) interface, both in the drivers and the common high-level net/dsa API.
> The only alternative is to pass the information about the topology via
> platform data - a legacy approach used by older systems that compiled the
> board description into the kernel.
> 
> The above constraint is problematic for the embedded devices based e.g. on
> x86_64 SoCs, which are described by ACPI tables - to use DSA, some tricks
> and workarounds have to be applied. Addition of switch description to
> DSDT/SSDT tables would help to solve many similar cases and use unmodified
> kernel modules. It also enables this feature for ARM64 ACPI users.
> 
> The key enablements allowing for adding ACPI support for DSA in Linux were
> NIC drivers, MDIO, PHY, and phylink modifications – the latter three merged
> in 2021. I thought it would be worth to experiment with DSA, which seemed
> to be a natural follow-up challenge.
> 
> It turned out that without much hassle it is possible to describe
> DSA-compliant switches as child devices of the MDIO busses, which are
> responsible for their enumeration based on the standard _ADR fields and
> description in _DSD objects under 'device properties' UUID [1].
> The vast majority of required changes were simple of_* to fwnode_*
> transition, as the DT and ACPI topolgies are analogous, except for
> 'ports' and 'mdio' subnodes naming, as they don't conform ACPI
> namespace constraints [2].

...

> Note that for now cascade topology remains unsupported in ACPI world
> (based on "dsa" label and "link" property values). It seems to be feasible,
> but would extend this patchset due to necessity of of_phandle_iterator
> migration to fwnode_. Leave it as a possible future step.

Wondering if this can be done using fwnode graph.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko