[Arm-dev] Marvell MVPP2 NIC support

Tue Nov 3 17:16:45 UTC 2020
Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>

Hi Pablo,

pon., 2 lis 2020 o 20:15 Pablo Sebastián Greco
<pablo at fliagreco.com.ar> napisał(a):
>
>
> On 2/11/20 15:27, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After installing Centos8.2 on Marvell CN9132 based platform I noticed
> > that compared to altarch7-aarch64 support the Marvell MVPP2 NIC
> > support was dropped.
> >
> > In order to enable it we would need to add
> > CONFIG_ARCH_MVEBU=y
> > CONFIG_MVPP2=m
> > to the SOURCES/kernel-aarch64.config & SOURCES/kernel-aarch64-debug.config
> The difference is exatly there, in the altarch. For 8.x, aarch64 is an
> official RH Arch, so we use the same configs that they provide.
> The only way I see is though the proper Stream channels, I mean filing
> an issue in bugzilla.redhat.com under  CentOS Stream, providing the
> patch and seeing where that goes.
> It would be interesting to check in the 8.x release notes if this driver
> wasn't specifically deprecated.
> If it were x86_64, we could add it to the plus kernel, but I think we
> don't build it for aarch64.
>

Thanks, the driver is not listed as deprecated in the RHEL release
notes of course.
I created a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894173 -
let's see where it takes us.

Best regards,
Marcin

> Wrt altarch kernels (5.4.x at the moment), we use the same configs for
> 7.x and 8.x, so hopefully we'll be able to build and release them soon
> for 8.x too.
> > What are the steps to achieve that? Centos altarch7 had a described
> > procedure for submitting the kernel patches, but that seems to be
> > changed in the new distro version.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Marcin
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> Pablo.