Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bgmac: support Ethernet core on BCM53573 SoCs

[David Miller]

From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:00:30 +0200

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> BCM53573 is a new series of Broadcom's SoCs. It's based on ARM and can
> be found in two packages (versions): BCM53573 and BCM47189. It shares
> some code with the Northstar family, but also requires some new quirks.
> 
> First of all there can be up to 2 Ethernet cores on this SoC. If that is
> the case, they are connected to two different switch ports allowing some
> more complex/optimized setups. It seems the second unit doesn't come
> fully configured and requires some IRQ quirk.
> 
> Other than that only the first core is connected to the PHY. For the
> second one we have to register fixed PHY (similarly to the Northstar),
> otherwise generic PHY driver would get some invalid info.
> 
> This has been successfully tested on Tenda AC9 (BCM47189B0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.