On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:01:54AM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> switches supported by qca8k have 2 gmacs that we can wire an external
> mii interface to. Usually this is used to wire 2 of the SoCs MACs to the
> switch. Thw switch itself is aware of one of the MACs being the cpu port
> and expects this to be port/mac0. Using the other will break the
> hardware offloading features.
Just to be sure here. There is no way to use the second port connected
to the CPU as a CPU port?
The Marvell chips do allow this. So i developed a proof of concept
which had a mapping between cpu ports and slave ports. slave port X
should you cpu port y for its traffic. This never got past proof of
concept.
If this can be made to work for qca8k, i would prefer having this
general concept, than specific hacks for pass through.
Andrew
