From: Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:57:00 +0300
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com> > > Looking at the Felix and Ocelot drivers, Maxim asked if it would be > possible to use them as a base for a new driver for the Seville switch > inside NXP T1040. Turns out, it is! The result is that the mscc_felix > driver was extended to probe on Seville. > > The biggest challenge seems to be getting register read/write API > generic enough to cover such wild bitfield variations between hardware > generations. > > Currently, both felix and seville are built under the same kernel config > option (NET_DSA_MSCC_FELIX). This has both some advantages (no need to > duplicate the Lynx PCS code from felix_vsc9959.c) and some disadvantages > (Seville needs to depend on PCI and on ENETC_MDIO). This will be further > refined as time progresses. > > The driver has been completely reviewed. Previous submission was here, > it wasn't accepted due to a conflict with Mark Brown's tree, very late > in the release cycle: > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/cover/20200531122640.1375715-1-olte...@gmail.com/ > > So this is more of a repost, with the only changes being related to > rebasing on top of the cleanup I had to do in Ocelot. Series applied, thank you.
