On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:19 PM Ansuel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm working on the conversion of ipq806x to dsa. > It's been 2 years and still dsa doesn't support multi-cpu port. > Online there are many patches that add support for this but they were > never accepted upstream since there isn't a solution that would work > for all the switches. Fact is that openwrt is different and have some > flexibility about this kind problem. > There is actually a patchset (rejected) that adds multi-cpu support > defined in the dts that can be used and doesn't look that bad. > > So here is the question: > Considering the fact that at least 3 target have disabled port (mtk, > mvebu and upcoming ipq806x) why not use the proposed patch > while upstream a final solution is found for this problem? > Turris already use a variant of that patch and also mediatek use > it. I closed https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3655 since 21.02 was branched. I would use that patchset as the Turris people are working on upstreaming a bunch of stuff. > > The idea would be to place the patch as a hack in the generic > target dir and targets can add patches to modify the dsa driver > accordingly (if needed). > > (the multi-cpu variant i'm talking about it the one that statically > link a port to a dedicated cpu port in the dts) > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
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