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Add preliminary NETC switch support for i.MX94
i.MX94 NETC (v4.3) integrates 802.1Q Ethernet switch functionality, the
switch provides advanced QoS with 8 traffic classes and a full range of
TSN standards capabilities. It has 3 user ports and 1 CPU port, and the
CPU port is connected to an internal ENETC through the pseduo link, so
instead of a back-to-back MAC, the lightweight "pseudo MAC" is used at
both ends of the pseudo link to transfer Ethernet frames. The pseudo
link provides a zero-copy interface (no serialization delay) and lower
power (less logic and memory).
Like most Ethernet switches, the NETC switch also supports a proprietary
switch tag, is used to carry in-band metadata information about frames.
This in-band metadata information can include the source port from which
the frame was received, what was the reason why this frame got forwarded
to the entity, and for the entity to indicate the precise destination
port of a frame. The NETC switch tag is added to frames after the source
MAC address. There are three types of switch tags, and each type has 1
to 4 subtypes, more details are as follows.
Forward switch tag (Type = 0): Represents forwarded frames.
- SubType = 0 - Normal frame processing.
To_Port switch tag (Type = 1): Represents frames that are to be sent to
a specific switch port.
- SubType = 0. No request to perform timestamping.
- SubType = 1. Request to perform one-step timestamping.
- SubType = 2. Request to perform two-step timestamping.
- SubType = 3. Request to perform both one-step timestamping and
two-step timestamping.
To_Host switch tag (Type = 2): Represents frames redirected or copied to
the switch management port.
- SubType = 0. Received frames redirected or copied to the switch
management port.
- SubType = 1. Received frames redirected or copied to the switch
management port with captured timestamp at the switch port where
the frame was received.
- SubType = 2. Transmit timestamp response (two-step timestamping).
Currently, this patch set supports Forward tag, SubType 0 of To_Port tag
and SubType 0 of To_Host tag. More tags will be supported in the future.
In addition, the switch supports NETC Table Management Protocol (NTMP),
some switch functionality is controlled using control messages sent to
the hardware using BD ring interface with 32B descriptors similar to the
packet Transmit BD ring used on ENETC. This interface is referred to as
the command BD ring. This is used to configure functionality where the
underlying resources may be shared between different entities or being
too large to configure using direct registers.
For this patch set, we have supported the following tables through the
command BD ring interface.
FDB Table: It contains forwarding and/or filtering information about MAC
addresses. The FDB table is used for MAC learning lookups and MAC
forwarding lookups.
VLAN Filter Table: It contains configuration and control information for
each VLAN configured on the switch.
Buffer Pool Table: It contains buffer pool configuration and operational
information. Each entry corresponds to a buffer pool. Currently, we use
this table to implement flow control feature on each port.
Ingress Port Filter Table: It contains a set of filters each capable of
classifying incoming traffic using a mix of L2, L3, and L4 parsed and
arbitrary field data. We use this table to implement host flood support
to the switch port.
The switch also supports other tables, and we will add more advanced
features through them in the future.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260518082506.1318236-1-wei.fang@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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