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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Mickey Rachamim <mickeyr@marvell.com>
Cc: Vadym Kochan <vadym.kochan@plvision.eu>,
	Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>,
	Oleksandr Mazur <oleksandr.mazur@plvision.eu>,
	Serhiy Boiko <serhiy.boiko@plvision.eu>,
	Serhiy Pshyk <serhiy.pshyk@plvision.eu>,
	Volodymyr Mytnyk <volodymyr.mytnyk@plvision.eu>,
	Taras Chornyi <taras.chornyi@plvision.eu>,
	Andrii Savka <andrii.savka@plvision.eu>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [net-next v4 1/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add driver for Prestera family ASIC devices
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:34:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200822163408.GG2347062@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR18MB1587EB225C6B80BF35A44EBFBA5A0@BN6PR18MB1587.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:00:21AM +0000, Mickey Rachamim wrote:

> > ASIC device specific handling is serviced by the firmware, current
> > driver's logic does not have PP specific code and relies on the FW
> > ABI which is PP-generic, and it looks like this how it should work
> > for boards with other ASICs, of course these boards should follow
> > the Marvell's Switchdev board design.  >
>
> All Marvell Prestera (DX) devices are all based on CPSS SDK. This is one SDK 
> and one build procedure that enables the Prestera driver to support all devices. 
> This unified support enables us (and our customers) to have one SW 
> implementation that will support variety of Prestera devices in same build/real-time 
> execution. 
> This approach also lead us with the implementation of the Prestera Switchdev drivers.
> As having detailed familiarity (20Y) with Marvell Prestera old/current/future devices - 
> this approach will be kept strictly also on the future.

So if i understand this correctly, the compatibility is not to
Prestera, but to the firmware running on the Prestera? You want to
express a compatibility to the ABI this firmware supports for the
switchdev driver to use?

	  Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27 12:22 [net-next v4 0/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver for Prestera family ASIC device 98DX326x (AC3x) Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 12:22 ` [net-next v4 1/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add driver for Prestera family ASIC devices Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 12:59   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-31 15:22     ` Vadym Kochan
2020-07-31 16:02       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-31 20:55         ` Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 19:32   ` David Miller
2020-08-13  8:03   ` Jonathan McDowell
2020-08-14  8:20     ` Vadym Kochan
2020-08-14 12:05       ` Jonathan McDowell
2020-08-14 12:27         ` Vadym Kochan
2020-08-14 13:18           ` Andrew Lunn
2020-08-20  8:31             ` Vadym Kochan
2020-08-20 10:00               ` [EXT] " Mickey Rachamim
2020-08-22 16:34                 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-08-25 11:36                   ` Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 12:22 ` [net-next v4 2/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add PCI interface support Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 12:32   ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-27 12:35     ` Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 13:02       ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-27 13:29   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-27 14:11     ` Jiri Pirko
2020-07-27 15:33       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-27 12:22 ` [net-next v4 3/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add basic devlink support Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 13:07   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-28 12:30     ` Vadym Kochan
2020-07-28 13:24       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-27 12:22 ` [net-next v4 4/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add ethtool interface support Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 13:17   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-27 12:22 ` [net-next v4 5/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver implementation Vadym Kochan
2020-07-27 12:22 ` [net-next v4 6/6] dt-bindings: marvell,prestera: Add description for device-tree bindings Vadym Kochan

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