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

Rafał Miłecki rafal at milecki.pl
Mon Oct 23 12:48:32 PDT 2023


On 2023-10-23 20:36, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 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).

Looks good, thank you!

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Rafał Miłecki



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