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

[Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>]

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On 10/23/23 11:33, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:33:14 +0200, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@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@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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