Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> 于2020年3月4日周三 上午9:24写道： > > The main Ethernet driver for all Octeon MIPS SoCs has been disabled > upstream in Linux 5.5, and will be removed in 5.6. The driver has been > in "staging" (i.e. it didn't meet the usual standards for kernel code) > ever since it was added in 2009. It recently stopped building, and > didn't have a regular maintainer who could fix it. (There is a > separate Ethernet driver for the management port, which seems to be > still maintained.) > > The USB host driver for Octeon CN3xxx and CN5xxx SoCs will also be > removed for similar reasons. > > * DSA: The removal of the Ethernet driver will affect the EdgeRouter > Pro used for the Debian mips porterbox and some buildds. These do not > seem to have any expansion slots useful for alternate network > interfaces, so they will likely need to be replaced before buster EOL.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11365607/ There is a patchset for it. Greg said that he will help to merge, while it has not really happen. Let's ask for him whether he need some more info or anything. > > * MIPS porters: Given that these SoCs are designed primarily for > networking and we will no longer support the on-board network > interfaces, does it make sense to continue building kernel packages for > them? > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot > > -- YunQiang Su
