On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:24 PM Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > * 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?
Related (or maybe off-topic)... I have a Cavium Octeon II and Octeon III available for testing. I did not set them up; they are still in the box. I can ship them to someone if there is interest in continuing support. If interested, please contact me. Jeff
