From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
Janne Huttunen <janne.huttunen@nokia.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: enable ethernet/xaui on CN68XX
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:49:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CE4666.4050307@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20150814194958.nU_AQlpQ3wfGk1ORMOFBf6jtFqTeMieHa4vPaXo7wUI@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150814130912.GR1199@ak-desktop.emea.nsn-net.net>
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@cavium.com>
Follow-on improvements can be made with additional patches.
David Daney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-14 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-13 13:21 [PATCH 00/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: enable ethernet/xaui on CN68XX Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 01/14] MIPS: OCTEON: fix CN6880 hang on XAUI init Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 02/14] MIPS: OCTEON: support additional interfaces on CN68XX Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 03/14] MIPS: OCTEON: support all PIP input ports " Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 04/14] MIPS: OCTEON: configure XAUI pkinds Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 05/14] MIPS: OCTEON: configure minimum PKO packet sizes on CN68XX Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 06/14] MIPS: OCTEON: add definitions for setting up SSO Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 07/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: properly enable/disable SSO WQE interrupts Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 08/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: set SSO group mask properly on CN68XX Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 09/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: increase output command buffers Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 10/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: support CN68XX style WQE Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 11/14] MIPS: OCTEON: initialize CN68XX PKO Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 12/14] MIPS: OCTEON: set up 1:1 mapping between CN68XX PKO queues and ports Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 13/14] MIPS: OCTEON: support interfaces 4 and 5 Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 13:21 ` [PATCH 14/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: use common helpers for determining interface and port Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-13 19:16 ` [PATCH 00/14] MIPS/staging: OCTEON: enable ethernet/xaui on CN68XX David Daney
2015-08-13 19:16 ` David Daney
2015-08-14 13:09 ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-08-14 19:49 ` David Daney [this message]
2015-08-14 19:49 ` David Daney
2015-08-19 19:40 ` Ralf Baechle
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