[PATCH net-next 0/3] RSTP SWITCH support for PRU-ICSSM Ethernet driver

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Thu Sep 25 07:19:21 PDT 2025


On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 07:32:09PM +0530, Parvathi Pudi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The DUAL-EMAC patch series for Megabit Industrial Communication Sub-system
> (ICSSM), which provides the foundational support for Ethernet functionality
> over PRU-ICSS on the TI SOCs (AM335x, AM437x, and AM57x), was merged into
> net-next recently [1].
> 
> This patch series enhances the PRU-ICSSM Ethernet driver to support
> RSTP SWITCH mode, which has been implemented based on "switchdev" and
> interacts with "mstp daemon" to support Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
> (RSTP) as well.

Is there anything in this patchset which is specific to RSTP? In
general, there is no difference between STP and RSTP. STP is generally
done in the kernel as part of the kernel bridge code. RSTP does it in
user space. But the hardware driver does not care if it is STP or
RSTP, it is the same API to the layer above.

	Andrew



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