Lorenzo Bianconi says:
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net: airoha: Preliminary patches to support multiple net_devices connected to the same GDM port
EN7581 or AN7583 SoCs support connecting multiple external SerDes (e.g.
Ethernet or USB SerDes) to GDM3 or GDM4 ports via a hw arbiter that
manages the traffic in a TDM manner. As a result multiple net_devices can
connect to the same GDM{3,4} port and there is a theoretical "1:n"
relation between GDM ports and net_devices.
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ │ ┌──────┐
│ P1 GDM1 ├────►MT7530│
│ │ └──────┘
│ │ ETH0 (DSA conduit)
│ │
│ PSE/FE │
│ │
│ │
│ │ ┌─────┐
│ P0 CDM1 ├────►QDMA0│
│ P4 P9 GDM4 │ └─────┘
└──┬─────────────────────────┬────┘
│ │
┌──▼──┐ ┌────▼────┐
│ PPE │ │ ARB │
└─────┘ └─┬─────┬─┘
│ │
┌──▼──┐┌─▼───┐
│ ETH ││ USB │
└─────┘└─────┘
ETH1 ETH2
This is a preliminary series to introduce support for multiple net_devices
connected to the same Frame Engine (FE) GDM port (GDM3 or GDM4) via an
external hw arbiter.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260527-airoha-eth-multi-serdes-preliminary-v1-0-ec6ed73ef7fc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>