From: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/swconfig: new package
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:23:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANQCQpaZ3++pZRYOEZoXUU4tbeJ2ZFfF+a=cekw4z-=0SP2_Ow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76a4d75c-e0cf-2852-b8af-14fa6b391f45@mind.be>
All,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 2:54 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
>
> Hi Vadim,
>
> On 20/08/2019 17:51, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> > Add swconfig package which allows to configure switchdev
> > device (Ethernet switch) via netlink interface.
[snip]
> It is considered legacy and new switch drivers should use the DSA (distributed
> switch architecture) kernel framework which makes it possible to use standard
> userspace tools such as ip to configure the switches.
>
> Also, as far as I understand, it uses a framework that never got upstreamed to
> Linux so you need an openwrt-forked kernel to use it. I think it's worth
> mentioning that in the help text as well.
Just a note, there is also this phytool floating around. I've got a
similar tool / dummy phy concept in a few products where DSA wasn't
feasible and I needed direct switch access.
https://github.com/wkz/phytool
Matt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-21 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-20 15:51 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/swconfig: new package Vadim Kochan
2019-08-20 19:53 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2019-08-21 15:23 ` Matthew Weber [this message]
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