[PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Linksys EA9500 add port 5 and port 7

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 10:58:35 EDT 2020



On 10/7/2020 5:32 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> This router is currently not enabled in Openwrt
> 
> You have to be careful here. Not everything runs OpenWRT. You cannot
> break backwards compatibility in mainline, simple as that. You need to
> ensure that mainline does not see a change in the CPU port.

I don't think this is breaking anything, in premise all 3 CPU interfaces 
are completely interchangeable, with the notable fact that port 8 
happens to have the flow accelerator block available for re-circulation 
of packets if we wanted to support a NATP offload at some point in the 
future.

Vivek, maybe you can add ports 5 and 7 in the Device Tree and mark them 
as disabled for now.
-- 
Florian



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