Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/4] Introduce Mellanox Technologies Switch ASICs switchdev drivers

From: roopa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:45:06 -0700

On 7/29/15, 2:33 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
>
> This patchset introduces Mellanox Technologies Switch driver infrastructure
> and support for SwitchX-2 ASIC.
>
> The driver is divided into 3 logical parts:
> 1) Bus - implements switch bus interface. Currently only PCI bus is
>     implemented, but more buses will be added in the future. Namely I2C
>     and SGMII.
>     (patch #2)
> 2) Driver - implemements of ASIC-specific functions.
>     Currently SwitchX-2 ASIC is supported, but a plan exists to introduce
>     support for Spectrum ASIC in the near future.
>     (patch #4)
> 3) Core - infrastructure that glues buses and drivers together.
>     It implements register access logic (EMADs) and takes care of RX traps
>     and events.
>     (patch #1 and #3)
>
> Ido Schimmel (1):
>    mlxsw: Add interface to access registers and process events
>
> Jiri Pirko (3):
>    mlxsw: Introduce Mellanox switch driver core
>    mlxsw: Add PCI bus implementation
>    mlxsw: Introduce Mellanox SwitchX-2 ASIC support
>
>
Its really great to see this driver. Thank you Jiri and others @mellanox!.