Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: vsc73xx: add port_stp_state_set function

Linus Walleij
2023-06-21T21:27:33Z

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:33 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

> > + struct vsc73xx *vsc = ds->priv;
> > + /* FIXME: STP frames isn't forwarded at this moment. BPDU frames are
> > + * forwarded only from to PI/SI interface. For more info see chapter
> > + * 2.7.1 (CPU Forwarding) in datasheet.
>
> Do you mean the CPU never gets to see the BPDU frames?
>
> Does the hardware have any sort of packet matching to trap frames to
> the CPU? Can you match on the destination MAC address
> 01:80:C2:00:00:00 ?

The hardware contains an embedded Intel 8054 CPU that can
execute programs to do pretty much anything.

The bad news: it requires a custom SDK thingy that we do not
have access to.

So far we used the chips in a bit of vanilla mode, which is all I
have ever seen in the systems we have and it can't do much,
not even add a helpful frame tag, but as can be seen from the
patches it can do VLAN...

Yours,
Linus Walleij