[PATCH 00/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: enable ethernet/xaui on CN68XX

[Aaro Koskinen]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:16:43PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 08/13/2015 06:21 AM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> >Currently mainline Linux is unusable on OCTEON II CN68XX SOCs due to
> >issues in Ethernet driver initialization. Some boards are hanging during
> >init, and all the needed register differences compared to the older SOCs
> >are not taken into account to make interrupts and packet delivery to work.
> >
> >This patch set provides a minimal support to get octeon-ethernet going
> >on CN68XX. Tested on top of 4.2-rc6 with Cavium EBB6800 and Kontron
> >S1901 boards by sending traffic over XAUI interface with busybox.
> 
> You don't say how it was tested.
> 
> Does OCTEON and OCTEON II networking continue to function?

I tested today with EBH5600 (OCTEON+) as well and networking works
as before.

> There is no SSO provisioning, so there will be limited buffering on packet
> ingress.  For low packet rates, it should be fine though.

We are aware of limitations. However, I guess this should be added...
I will take a look.

Thanks,

A.