Marvel 88E6063-RCJ1 driver

Marvel 88E6063-RCJ1 driver

[linux-embedded-owner]

Hi,

I'm not sure, if my posting goes to the right list, but before I'll start
hacking away, I would like to ask if someone already has a driver for a
Marvel Linkstreet 88E6063 Integrated 7-Port QoS, 802.1Q 10/100 Ethernet
Switch for a 2.6 kernel handy or can point me to where this can be found.

Regards,

Robert

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Re: Marvel 88E6063-RCJ1 driver

[Kumar Gala]

One place to look is the WRT projects.. Some of them have drivers for  
various switches.

- k

On Sep 16, 2008, at 11:33 PM, <linux-embedded-owner@reliableembeddedsystems.com 
 > <linux-embedded-owner@reliableembeddedsystems.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure, if my posting goes to the right list, but before I'll  
> start
> hacking away, I would like to ask if someone already has a driver  
> for a
> Marvel Linkstreet 88E6063 Integrated 7-Port QoS, 802.1Q 10/100  
> Ethernet
> Switch for a 2.6 kernel handy or can point me to where this can be  
> found.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> -- 
> Robert Berger
> Embedded Software Specialist
>
> Reliable Embedded Systems
> Consulting Training Engineering
> Tel.: (+30) 697 593 3428
> Fax.:(+30 210) 684 7881
> URL: http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com
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Re: Marvel 88E6063-RCJ1 driver

[Pawel Pastuszak]

You don't need any driver for the 88E6063 it uses phy id to talk to
all its ports.. so all you have to do is make sure you set up your
board to not to bind to any phy address then you can uses it as a
switch..

Which Processor is this for...I created couple tool for the marvell
switch i uses 3 different type in that family of switch's

Pawel

Re: Marvel 88E6063-RCJ1 driver

[linux-embedded-owner]

Thanks Pawel,

It's for a Sigma SMP8634 (MIPS 4KEc) chipset.
In the meantime we got it working.
And yes, no special driver is needed for it.

Regards,

Robert

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Consulting Training Engineering
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more.-Jack Ganssle


On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:29:04 -0400, "Pawel Pastuszak"
<pawelpastuszak@gmail.com> wrote:
> You don't need any driver for the 88E6063 it uses phy id to talk to
> all its ports.. so all you have to do is make sure you set up your
> board to not to bind to any phy address then you can uses it as a
> switch..
> 
> Which Processor is this for...I created couple tool for the marvell
> switch i uses 3 different type in that family of switch's
> 
> Pawel

Re: Marvel 88E6063-RCJ1 driver

[Lennert Buytenhek]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:33:18PM -0500, linux-embedded-owner@reliableembeddedsystems.com wrote:

> I'm not sure, if my posting goes to the right list, but before I'll start
> hacking away, I would like to ask if someone already has a driver for a
> Marvel Linkstreet 88E6063 Integrated 7-Port QoS, 802.1Q 10/100 Ethernet
> Switch for a 2.6 kernel handy or can point me to where this can be found.

Jumping in late..  (please CC, not on the list)

As the other posters have suggested, you _can_ use this switch without
any special drivers.  Your boot loader should initialise it in such a
way that the CPU port is treated as just another switch port (turn tag
mode off, and force link/speed/duplex since there is no PHY), and then
it'll be just as if your CPU is connected to a regular 7-port ethernet
switch.


If you want more control over the switch, I've just posted a patch
series to the linux netdev mailing list for support for various DSA
switches.  (There is no 88E6063 support yet, but there is support
for the 88E6060, and 6063 shouldn't be hard to add.)

What that patch series does is to expose each port on the switch as
a linux network interface, handling things like link state, PHY
commands and hardware statistics transparently, as if the switch ports
were individual NICs in the host system.

A forthcoming patch set will handle hardware bridging transparently,
so if you do e.g. "brctl addif br0 lan1; brctl addif br0 lan2", the DSA
driver will program the switch chip so that ports 1 and 2 will be
bridged in hardware, etc.


From a software point of view, the only difference between the 88E6060
and the 88E6063 is that the 6063 has hardware QoS and hardware stats
counters.  If you'd like to give it a go, let me know and I'll whip up
a 88E6063 support patch for you to try.