From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PfIx7-00088z-35 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:18:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F224CE080A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BA4E0994 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so27874wwi.10 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:36:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OXtp4tsopZE61JWZSNsa94ch528amis/NRioufoCMbQ=; b=olm/ZjPZyWti2DPdK7sKUgDZKbbp3DawsTxgmNQp5S1P7BU3u7l5IFp/UxyQLin8R3 q2/4DPbJ9Xkrc0ki48pYhutQf65uAg8mTRz7a/3UWdreV8PWZgAOaxFLZXcAm+JmG1Pg TP+8TfPRzMCAA10jAilidowbGdRAbdS4y4Ep4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BIsJVswaXGQQA7e5L0tUJiPH4kQmUGDt2kX7AZuDSrtlu/aTIkKp353tXneyLvQdSM F8eHqFa850O2W3yYPlCMMcOMQ5wdAIkROEXcEg+pfLlJPUwingfrhHyYx9+YW8dNYlAu /e9iaOw4WEgbUvttRaXHZ4ylbyb5fsjATKMKw= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.167.65 with SMTP id h43mr1640809wel.17.1295381861406; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.70.202 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:17:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:17:41 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Marvell switch 6131 and the DSA driver From: Manuel Lauss To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7e82ff67592be29b83c54d0bc27625bd On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Kfir Lavi wrote: > =A0 =A0--- Distributed Switch Architecture support > =A0 =A0[*] =A0 Marvell 88E6060 ethernet switch chip support > =A0 =A0[*] =A0 Marvell 88E6131 ethernet switch chip support > =A0 =A0[*] =A0 Marvell 88E6123/6161/6165 ethernet switch chip support > > I have an evaluation board from Marvell that connects for now via USB. > lsusb shows the switch, but the kernel don't activate the DSA driver > for this switch. > Reading the drivers code, I see just mentioning of mii_bus. > It seems that the kernel doesn't make the connection between the > device found on the USB bus, and the DSA driver in the kernel. > There are usb wireless dongles, so I assume the kernel know how > to handle network hardware on top USB. > Can someone help me understand this? mii is a bus between a network controller ("mac") and one or more phy chips= , to manage link properties. do you have a manual for the board? what does it say about what you can do with the usb link? Manuel