[PATCH 1/3] net: Add support for Broadcom GENETv5 Ethernet controller

[Daniel Schwierzeck]

Hi Andre,

Am 19.12.19 um 12:42 schrieb Andre Przywara:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:32:06 +0100
> Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> many thanks for your valuable comments! Do you have access to a MIPS board using a GENETv5 MAC? I would be very curious to see if the driver works there, and am happy to make adjustments.

No, I have not. I was only triggered by your commit message that this
MAC is also used on some MIPS based Broadcom SoC's ;)

> Does your board use a PHY connected via RGMII? Because this is something we are relying on at the moment. But without any ways of testing this I'd rather not support other transports at this time.
> 
> I think your points below are all valid, so thanks for bringing this up. Will test this later on and post a v2 in due time then.
> 

We had a similar scenario a few months ago, where a newly supported ARM
based Broadcom SoC could simply reuse various drivers initially added
for MIPS based Broadcom SoC's. So if someone wants to use your driver
with a MIPS based Broadcom SoC in the future, likely some tweaking of
the driver is required. But at least the basic cross-arch compatibility
should be given.

-- 
- Daniel