Florian Fainelli writes:
> On 12/16/2020 11:51 PM, Steen Hegelund wrote: >> This series provides the Microchip Sparx5 Switch Driver >> >> The Sparx5 Carrier Ethernet and Industrial switch family delivers 64 >> Ethernet ports and up to 200 Gbps of switching bandwidth. >> >> It provides a rich set of Ethernet switching features such as hierarchical >> QoS, hardware-based OAM and service activation testing, protection >> switching, IEEE 1588, and Synchronous Ethernet. >> >> Using provider bridging (Q-in-Q) and MPLS/MPLS-TP technology, it delivers >> MEF CE >> 2.0 Ethernet virtual connections (EVCs) and features advanced TCAM >> classification in both ingress and egress. >> >> Per-EVC features include advanced L3-aware classification, a rich set of >> statistics, OAM for end-to-end performance monitoring, and dual-rate >> policing and shaping. >> >> Time sensitive networking (TSN) is supported through a comprehensive set of >> features including frame preemption, cut-through, frame replication and >> elimination for reliability, enhanced scheduling: credit-based shaping, >> time-aware shaping, cyclic queuing, and forwarding, and per-stream policing >> and filtering. >> >> Together with IEEE 1588 and IEEE 802.1AS support, this guarantees >> low-latency deterministic networking for Fronthaul, Carrier, and Industrial >> Ethernet. >> >> The Sparx5 switch family consists of following SKUs: >> >> - VSC7546 Sparx5-64 up to 64 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary >> port configurations: >> - 6 *10G >> - 16 * 2.5G + 2 * 10G >> - 24 * 1G + 4 * 10G >> >> - VSC7549 Sparx5-90 up to 90 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary >> port configurations: >> - 9 * 10G >> - 16 * 2.5G + 4 * 10G >> - 48 * 1G + 4 * 10G >> >> - VSC7552 Sparx5-128 up to 128 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary >> port configurations: >> - 12 * 10G >> - 16 * 2.5G + 8 * 10G >> - 48 * 1G + 8 * 10G >> >> - VSC7556 Sparx5-160 up to 160 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary >> port configurations: >> - 16 * 10G >> - 10 * 10G + 2 * 25G >> - 16 * 2.5G + 10 * 10G >> - 48 * 1G + 10 * 10G >> >> - VSC7558 Sparx5-200 up to 200 Gbps of bandwidth with the following primary >> port configurations: >> - 20 * 10G >> - 8 * 25G >> >> In addition, the device supports one 10/100/1000/2500/5000 Mbps >> SGMII/SerDes node processor interface (NPI) Ethernet port. >> >> The Sparx5 support is developed on the PCB134 and PCB135 evaluation boards. >> >> - PCB134 main networking features: >> - 12x SFP+ front 10G module slots (connected to Sparx5 through SFI). >> - 8x SFP28 front 25G module slots (connected to Sparx5 through SFI high >> speed). >> - Optional, one additional 10/100/1000BASE-T (RJ45) Ethernet port >> (on-board VSC8211 PHY connected to Sparx5 through SGMII). >> >> - PCB135 main networking features: >> - 48x1G (10/100/1000M) RJ45 front ports using 12xVSC8514 QuadPHY’s each >> connected to VSC7558 through QSGMII. >> - 4x10G (1G/2.5G/5G/10G) RJ45 front ports using the AQR407 10G QuadPHY >> each port connects to VSC7558 through SFI. >> - 4x SFP28 25G module slots on back connected to VSC7558 through SFI high >> speed. >> - Optional, one additional 1G (10/100/1000M) RJ45 port using an on-board >> VSC8211 PHY, which can be connected to VSC7558 NPI port through SGMII >> using a loopback add-on PCB) >> >> This series provides support for: >> - SFPs and DAC cables via PHYLINK with a number of 5G, 10G and 25G >> devices and media types. >> - Port module configuration for 10M to 25G speeds with SGMII, QSGMII, >> 1000BASEX, 2500BASEX and 10GBASER as appropriate for these modes. >> - SerDes configuration via the Sparx5 SerDes driver (see below). >> - Host mode providing register based injection and extraction. >> - Switch mode providing MAC/VLAN table learning and Layer2 switching >> offloaded to the Sparx5 switch. >> - STP state, VLAN support, host/bridge port mode, Forwarding DB, and >> configuration and statistics via ethtool. >> >> More support will be added at a later stage. >> >> The Sparx5 Switch chip register model can be browsed here: >> Link: https://microchip-ung.github.io/sparx-5_reginfo/reginfo_sparx-5.html > > Out of curiosity, what tool was used to generate the register > information page? It looks really neat and well organized. Florian, It is an in-house tool. The input data is in a proprietary XML-like format. We're pleased that you like it, we do too. We are also pleased that being a Microchip entity, we can actually make this kind of information public. I'll pass your praise on. ---Lars -- Lars Povlsen, Microchip
