[PATCH net-next v2 13/14] net: stmmac: tc956x: add TC956x/QPS615 support

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Jun 5 07:47:58 PDT 2026


On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 08:00:20PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> From: Daniel Thompson <daniel at riscstar.com>
> 
> Toshiba TC956x is an Ethernet AVB/TSN bridge and is essentially a
> small and highly-specialized SoC. TC956x includes an "eMAC" subsystem
> that can be accessed, along with several other peripherals, via two
> PCIe endpoint functions. There is a main driver for the endpoint that
> decomposes things and creates auxiliary bus devices to model the SoC.
> 
> The eMAC consists of a Designware XGMAC, XPCS and PMA. Each eMAC is
> supported by an MSIGEN that bridges TC956x level interrupts to PCIe
> MSIs.
> 
> Add a driver for the eMAC/MSIGEN combination.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Alex Elder <elder at riscstar.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at riscstar.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel at riscstar.com>

The order is wrong here unless you worked on it and then Daniel took 
over. Tags should be chronological order.

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   2 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig   |  14 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile  |   2 +
>  .../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tc956x.c    | 818 ++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 836 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tc956x.c
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 0439607d1155f..418537cbefbbb 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -27059,6 +27059,8 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/toshiba,tc956x-dwmac.yaml
>  F:	drivers/gpio/gpio-tc956x.c
>  F:	drivers/misc/tc956x_pci.c
> +F:	drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tc956x.c
> +F:	include/soc/toshiba/tc956x-dwmac.h
>  
>  TOSHIBA WMI HOTKEYS DRIVER
>  M:	Azael Avalos <coproscefalo at gmail.com>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
> index e3dd5adda5aca..8d247e033e356 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
> @@ -404,6 +404,20 @@ config DWMAC_MOTORCOMM
>  	  This enables glue driver for Motorcomm DWMAC-based PCI Ethernet
>  	  controllers. Currently only YT6801 is supported.
>  
> +config DWMAC_TC956X
> +	tristate "Toshiba TC956X DWMAC support"
> +	depends on PCI
> +	depends on COMMON_CLK
> +	depends on TOSHIBA_TC956X_PCI
> +	default TOSHIBA_TC956X_PCI
> +	select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
> +	help
> +	  This selects the Toshiba TC956X (and Qualcomm QPS615) support in the
> +	  stmmac driver.
> +
> +	  This provides support for the ethernet controllers found on these
> +	  devices.
> +
>  config STMMAC_PCI
>  	tristate "STMMAC PCI bus support"
>  	depends on PCI
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile
> index a1cea2f57252e..e8e7f95dbe3e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile
> @@ -51,4 +51,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_STMMAC_PCI)	+= stmmac-pci.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DWMAC_INTEL)	+= dwmac-intel.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DWMAC_LOONGSON)	+= dwmac-loongson.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DWMAC_MOTORCOMM)	+= dwmac-motorcomm.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_TC956X_PCI)	+= tc956x-pci.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_DWMAC_TC956X)	+= dwmac-tc956x.o
>  stmmac-pci-objs:= stmmac_pci.o
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tc956x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tc956x.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..c77585e4a50e6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-tc956x.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,818 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2026 by RISCstar Solutions Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> + *
> + * Derived from code having the following copyrights:
> + * Copyright (C) 2011-2012  Vayavya Labs Pvt Ltd
> + * Copyright (C) 2025 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/auxiliary_bus.h>

Based on the block diagram, these are PCI devices. Auxiliary bus is the 
wrong thing to use here.

Rob



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