Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Linksys EA9500 add port 5 and port 7

From: Vivek Unune
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 16:21:01 EST


Thanks Florian, I'll do that!

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 10:58 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 10/7/2020 5:32 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> This router is currently not enabled in Openwrt
> >
> > You have to be careful here. Not everything runs OpenWRT. You cannot
> > break backwards compatibility in mainline, simple as that. You need to
> > ensure that mainline does not see a change in the CPU port.
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> I don't think this is breaking anything, in premise all 3 CPU interfaces
> are completely interchangeable, with the notable fact that port 8
> happens to have the flow accelerator block available for re-circulation
> of packets if we wanted to support a NATP offload at some point in the
> future.
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> Vivek, maybe you can add ports 5 and 7 in the Device Tree and mark them
> as disabled for now.
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> Florian