Hi List,
I am trying to add support of a Vitesse L2 switch in u-boot (in unmanaged configuration). I was analyzing whether advanced features like flow control, link-aggregation etc are required to be supported for a L2 switch working in a u-boot bootloader level.
My point-of-view is that the L2 switch, should support only bare-minimum tftp of images, ping to other ethernet entities, bootp .. type of commands on u-boot and as such the L2 switch u-boot driver doesn't need to address flow-control and other such advanced features (probably of interest for a Linux device driver).
But, I am not sure about the design approaches used to support previous switch modules in u-boot.
Also I had a query whether there is a common switch framework in-place/under-consideration in u-boot, similar to what is already present in OpenWrt code: https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/boot/uboot-lantiq/patches/0019...
Would porting this to u-boot make sense to have a common framework for ethernet switch in-place?
Can you please let me know your views on the same and point me to any reference switch drivers that support these features.
Regards, Bhupesh