Re: cascaded switch

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Lunn
> So, it is used so that the 2 switch will behave as if it is one big switch. Yes. This particularly important with offloading. When your offload a bridge, you don't need to care which switch the ports or on. If traffic needs to go from one switch to the other, it will. If you modelled it as two s

Re: cascaded switch

2018-05-18 Thread Ran Shalit
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I mean the same terminology used in marvell's switch.(I don't think >> there is more than one terminology for this, please correct me if >> wrong). >> Anyway, I can see examples how it is done, but I don't understand the >> benefit

Re: cascaded switch

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Lunn
> Hi, > > I mean the same terminology used in marvell's switch.(I don't think > there is more than one terminology for this, please correct me if > wrong). > Anyway, I can see examples how it is done, but I don't understand the > benefit of this constellation, and why device tree needs to be > fam

Re: cascaded switch

2018-05-18 Thread Ran Shalit
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:35:38PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to understand the concept of cascaded switch. >> I haven't find much information on this topic. >> >> Can anyone please explain the general concept, when i

Re: cascaded switch

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:35:38PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to understand the concept of cascaded switch. > I haven't find much information on this topic. > > Can anyone please explain the general concept, when is it used, and > why does the device tree need to know about