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@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.