[net-next v7 4/7] net: mtip: The L2 switch driver for imx287
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzk at kernel.org
Thu Apr 24 22:33:17 PDT 2025
On 25/04/2025 03:11, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:29:08 +0200 Lukasz Majewski wrote:
>> This patch series provides support for More Than IP L2 switch embedded
>> in the imx287 SoC.
>>
>> This is a two port switch (placed between uDMA[01] and MAC-NET[01]),
>> which can be used for offloading the network traffic.
>>
>> It can be used interchangeably with current FEC driver - to be more
>> specific: one can use either of it, depending on the requirements.
>>
>> The biggest difference is the usage of DMA - when FEC is used, separate
>> DMAs are available for each ENET-MAC block.
>> However, with switch enabled - only the DMA0 is used to send/receive data
>> to/form switch (and then switch sends them to respecitive ports).
>
> Lots of sparse warnings and build issues here, at least on x86.
>
> Could you make sure it's clean with an allmodconfig config,
> something like:
>
> make C=1 W=1 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/mtipsw/
... and W=1 with clang as well.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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