Re: net: dsa: Realtek switch drivers

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 01:49:35AM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm starting to look at some L2/L3 switches with Realtek silicon. I see 
> in the upstream kernel there are dsa drivers for a couple of simple L2 
> switches. While openwrt has support for a lot of the more advanced 
> silicon. I'm just wondering if there is a particular reason no-one has 
> attempted to upstream support for these switches? If I were to start 
> grabbing drivers from openwrt and trying to get them landed would that 
> be a problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris

What do you mean by the L3 switching functionality, exactly? Offloading
of inter-VLAN routing? Or routing offload in general?