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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc•com>
To: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: SMSC 9303 support
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 06:21:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524183D6.6040801@mlbassoc.com> (raw)

I need to support the SMSC9303 in an embedded system.  I'm not
finding any [explicit] support for this device in the latest
mainline kernel.  Did I miss something?

To be clear, the SMSC9303 is a 3-port managed ethernet switch
capable of supporting 802.1D/802.1Q directly. This switch is
driven by a single MAC via MII/RMII and exposes the other two
ports via physical PHYs.  What I need it to do is behave like
two external, separate devices.  I was thinking that what I need
to do is treat these as VLAN devices since the switch can manage
the routing.

Does this seem like a reasonable approach?
How do I "hook up" my normal ethernet driver to it?  To the hardware
it just looks like any other MII/RMII PHY.  The device is managed
separately via I2C.  I can have that set up separately if necessary.

Thanks for any pointers/ideas

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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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next             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 12:21 Gary Thomas [this message]
2013-09-24 16:51 ` SMSC 9303 support Ben Hutchings
2013-09-24 16:59   ` Gary Thomas
2013-09-24 18:29     ` Florian Fainelli
2013-09-24 19:13       ` Gary Thomas
2013-09-25  8:24         ` Florian Fainelli

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