Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/12] Add EMAC3 support for sa8540p-ride

From: Brian Masney
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 11:26:22 EST


On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 03:03:57PM -0500, Andrew Halaney wrote:
> This is a forward port / upstream refactor of code delivered
> downstream by Qualcomm over at [0] to enable the DWMAC5 based
> implementation called EMAC3 on the sa8540p-ride dev board.
>
> From what I can tell with the board schematic in hand,
> as well as the code delivered, the main changes needed are:
>
> 1. A new address space layout for dwmac5/EMAC3 MTL/DMA regs
> 2. A new programming sequence required for the EMAC3 based platforms
>
> This series makes the changes above as well as other housekeeping items
> such as converting dt-bindings to yaml, etc.
>
> As requested[1], it has been split up by compilation deps / maintainer tree.
> I will post a link to the associated devicetree changes that together
> with this series get the hardware functioning.
>
> Patches 1-3 are clean ups of the currently supported dt-bindings and
> IMO could be picked up as is independent of the rest of the series to
> improve the current codebase. They've all been reviewed in prior
> versions of the series.
>
> Patches 5-7 are also clean ups of the driver and are worth picking up
> independently as well. They don't all have explicit reviews but should
> be good to go (trivial changes on non-reviewed bits).
>
> The rest of the patches have new changes, lack review, or are specificly
> being made to support the new hardware, so they should wait until the
> series as a whole is deemed ready to go by the community.

Looks good to me!

Tested-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>