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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 16:08:11 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:29:15 -0500 Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> The primary use-case that I find valuable is the ability to perform
> debug of different parts of a hardware pipeline when devices are
> already in the field.

I think we covered the "debug by people who have access to the RTL"
in previous iterations. For networking that's not a sufficient use
case for a backdoor this powerful, sorry.