[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Set fixed-link for extra Netgear R8000 CPU ports

Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli at broadcom.com
Mon Oct 23 11:36:27 PDT 2023


On 10/23/23 11:33, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:33:14 +0200, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> While switch ports 5 and 7 are disabled (vendor designed port 8 to be
>> used for CPU traffic) they could be used strictly technically. For some
>> reason however both those ports need forcing link to be usable.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>> ---
> 
> Applied to https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux/commits/devicetree/next, thanks!

Ended up with the following commit message:

Ports 5 and 7 are disabled by default because the standard use case is
for port 8 to manage all CPU directed traffic. For experimentation
purposes however it is desirable to provide adequate properties such
that people can experiment with using different ports without having to
figure out their configuration. Some of the use cases include but are
not limited to doubling or tripling the bandwidth by leveraging the
additional ports/Ethernet MAC combinations.


let me know if I should rephrase it before pushing this to the the ARM 
SoC maintainers (tomorrow).
-- 
Florian

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