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2Broadcom Starfighter 2 Ethernet switch driver
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4
5Broadcom's Starfighter 2 Ethernet switch hardware block is commonly found and
6deployed in the following products:
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8- xDSL gateways such as BCM63138
9- streaming/multimedia Set Top Box such as BCM7445
10- Cable Modem/residential gateways such as BCM7145/BCM3390
11
12The switch is typically deployed in a configuration involving between 5 to 13
13ports, offering a range of built-in and customizable interfaces:
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15- single integrated Gigabit PHY
16- quad integrated Gigabit PHY
17- quad external Gigabit PHY w/ MDIO multiplexer
18- integrated MoCA PHY
19- several external MII/RevMII/GMII/RGMII interfaces
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21The switch also supports specific congestion control features which allow MoCA
22fail-over not to lose packets during a MoCA role re-election, as well as out of
23band back-pressure to the host CPU network interface when downstream interfaces
24are connected at a lower speed.
25
26The switch hardware block is typically interfaced using MMIO accesses and
27contains a bunch of sub-blocks/registers:
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29- ``SWITCH_CORE``: common switch registers
30- ``SWITCH_REG``: external interfaces switch register
31- ``SWITCH_MDIO``: external MDIO bus controller (there is another one in SWITCH_CORE,
32  which is used for indirect PHY accesses)
33- ``SWITCH_INDIR_RW``: 64-bits wide register helper block
34- ``SWITCH_INTRL2_0/1``: Level-2 interrupt controllers
35- ``SWITCH_ACB``: Admission control block
36- ``SWITCH_FCB``: Fail-over control block
37
38Implementation details
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40
41The driver is located in ``drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c`` and is implemented as a DSA
42driver; see ``Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst`` for details on the subsystem
43and what it provides.
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45The SF2 switch is configured to enable a Broadcom specific 4-bytes switch tag
46which gets inserted by the switch for every packet forwarded to the CPU
47interface, conversely, the CPU network interface should insert a similar tag for
48packets entering the CPU port. The tag format is described in
49``net/dsa/tag_brcm.c``.
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51Overall, the SF2 driver is a fairly regular DSA driver; there are a few
52specifics covered below.
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54Device Tree probing
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56
57The DSA platform device driver is probed using a specific compatible string
58provided in ``net/dsa/dsa.c``. The reason for that is because the DSA subsystem gets
59registered as a platform device driver currently. DSA will provide the needed
60device_node pointers which are then accessible by the switch driver setup
61function to setup resources such as register ranges and interrupts. This
62currently works very well because none of the of_* functions utilized by the
63driver require a struct device to be bound to a struct device_node, but things
64may change in the future.
65
66MDIO indirect accesses
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68
69Due to a limitation in how Broadcom switches have been designed, external
70Broadcom switches connected to a SF2 require the use of the DSA slave MDIO bus
71in order to properly configure them. By default, the SF2 pseudo-PHY address, and
72an external switch pseudo-PHY address will both be snooping for incoming MDIO
73transactions, since they are at the same address (30), resulting in some kind of
74"double" programming. Using DSA, and setting ``ds->phys_mii_mask`` accordingly, we
75selectively divert reads and writes towards external Broadcom switches
76pseudo-PHY addresses. Newer revisions of the SF2 hardware have introduced a
77configurable pseudo-PHY address which circumvents the initial design limitation.
78
79Multimedia over CoAxial (MoCA) interfaces
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81
82MoCA interfaces are fairly specific and require the use of a firmware blob which
83gets loaded onto the MoCA processor(s) for packet processing. The switch
84hardware contains logic which will assert/de-assert link states accordingly for
85the MoCA interface whenever the MoCA coaxial cable gets disconnected or the
86firmware gets reloaded. The SF2 driver relies on such events to properly set its
87MoCA interface carrier state and properly report this to the networking stack.
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89The MoCA interfaces are supported using the PHY library's fixed PHY/emulated PHY
90device and the switch driver registers a ``fixed_link_update`` callback for such
91PHYs which reflects the link state obtained from the interrupt handler.
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93
94Power Management
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97Whenever possible, the SF2 driver tries to minimize the overall switch power
98consumption by applying a combination of:
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100- turning off internal buffers/memories
101- disabling packet processing logic
102- putting integrated PHYs in IDDQ/low-power
103- reducing the switch core clock based on the active port count
104- enabling and advertising EEE
105- turning off RGMII data processing logic when the link goes down
106
107Wake-on-LAN
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109
110Wake-on-LAN is currently implemented by utilizing the host processor Ethernet
111MAC controller wake-on logic. Whenever Wake-on-LAN is requested, an intersection
112between the user request and the supported host Ethernet interface WoL
113capabilities is done and the intersection result gets configured. During
114system-wide suspend/resume, only ports not participating in Wake-on-LAN are
115disabled.
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