Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/3] net: dsa: never skip VLAN configuration

[Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>]

Hi Hauke,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 10:04:19PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> OpenWrt takes many packages like ping from busybox, but OpenWrt can also
> install the full versions. Adding a package which packs the self tests from
> the kernel and has the needed applications as dependencies would be nice. It
> would be nice to have such a thing in the OpenWrt package feed then we can
> easily test switches.

I didn't want to insist on that because I know that OpenWrt devices are
generally strapped for storage. Also, I never managed to build an OpenWrt
by myself, plus my only OpenWrt device is helping me send this email, so
I can't be of very much help on that front, I'm afraid. But I'm happy to
see Martin take the initiative, and the encouragement from you.

> A debian chroot should be possible, but Debian supports MIPS32 BE only till
> Debian 10, I do not know if this recent enough. The GSWIP driver only works
> on SoCs with a MIPS32 BE CPU, I think this is similar for some other
> switches too. There are some old manuals in the Internet on how to run
> Debian on such systems.

I was definitely suggesting this as the easy way out, as you can put
Debian on an ext4 formatted USB stick. Debian 10 should definitely be
enough, as these selftests don't use the latest and greatest features
added to iproute2 IIRC, but it's concerning on the other hand that
maintainership for the debian-mips port was dropped. Are you closely
involved with the topic, do you know what's blocking the upgrade?