Re: [PATCH net-next v7 12/12] net: dsa: add driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switch family

From: Paolo Abeni

Date: Thu Nov 06 2025 - 09:38:16 EST


On 11/4/25 9:03 AM, Sverdlin, Alexander wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-11-03 at 12:20 +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
>> Add driver for the MaxLinear GSW1xx family of Ethernet switch ICs which
>> are based on the same IP as the Lantiq/Intel GSWIP found in the Lantiq VR9
>> and Intel GRX MIPS router SoCs. The main difference is that instead of
>> using memory-mapped I/O to communicate with the host CPU these ICs are
>> connected via MDIO (or SPI, which isn't supported by this driver).
>> Implement the regmap API to access the switch registers over MDIO to allow
>> reusing lantiq_gswip_common for all core functionality.
>>
>> The GSW1xx also comes with a SerDes port capable of 1000Base-X, SGMII and
>> 2500Base-X, which can either be used to connect an external PHY or SFP
>> cage, or as the CPU port. Support for the SerDes interface is implemented
>> in this driver using the phylink_pcs interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> thank you for the patch!
>
> Finally I was able to run selftest/drivers/net/dsa/local_termination.sh
> with only 2 unexpected failures on a GSW145 hardware (with TI AM62
> host CPU and its CPSW (not in switchdev mode) as CPU interface).
>
> The problems I had in the past were neither related to the GSW145 code,
> nor to am65-cpsw-nuss, but to the test itself:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251104061723.483301-1-alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> The remaining failing test cases are:
> TEST: VLAN over vlan_filtering=1 bridged port: Unicast IPv4 to unknown MAC address [FAIL]
> reception succeeded, but should have failed
> TEST: VLAN over vlan_filtering=1 bridged port: Unicast IPv4 to unknown MAC address, allmulti [FAIL]
> reception succeeded, but should have failed
>
> So far I didn't notice any problems with untagged read-word IP traffic over
> GSW145 ports.
>
> Do you have a suggestion what could I check further regarding the failing
> test cases? As I understood, all of them pass on your side?

Could be that due to different revisions of the relevant H/W?

I tend to think we are better off merging the series as-is, and handle
the above with follow-up, as needed. Any different opinions?

Thanks,

Paolo