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

[David Daney]

On 08/14/2015 06:09 AM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> 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.

Good, that is the main thing I was worried about.

>
>> 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.
>

If what you have now works, I would merge this patch set, so:

Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com>


Follow-on improvements can be made with additional patches.

David Daney