[LEDE-DEV] Can ramips use mt7530 switch driver from mainline?

[Rosen Penev]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 5:57 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> On 02/28/2018 11:34 AM, Marek Behun wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the mt7530 switch driver is now in mainline kernel as a DSA driver. The
>> LEDE ramips target ethernet driver though doesn't use it yet, and I've
>> been thinking what all would have to be done to port the ethernet
>> driver to use it, if it even is possible.
>>
>> For example, the mt7530 dsa driver device tree binding needs
>> regulator definitions (core-supply, io-supply). I haven't seen these
>> nowhere in the mt7621 device trees nor in the code. Any ideas?
>
> I think the biggest missing part is a good migration path. Currently the
> users have some configurations based on swconfig and this has to be
> ported to the DSA configuration model. If someone could create a script
> which does the migration of an existing swconfig configuration to a DSA
> based configuration that would be very helpful.
This is probably not popular, but since LEDE is getting renamed to
OpenWrt, can we break compatibility?
OpenWrt CC is already not sysupgrade compatible with OpenWrt or LEDE
because of the dnsmasq change and maybe others.
>
> Hauke
>
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