Release goals for 22.XX

[Sergey Ryazanov]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:12 AM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> On 10/10/21 2:44 AM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:40 PM Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:09, Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Nothing in this target has more than 32 MiB of RAM (most devices have
>>>> 16 MiB) [1]. Just put it out of its misery. :)
>>>
>>> Scratch that. After chatting with dangole, there may be some life in
>>> it, after all. I have an ath25 device (FON2200) and didn't even
>>> remember it.
>>
>> I am in the process of migrating ath25 to the 5.10 kernel. Initial
>> build was trivial. But I need to restore the Marvel swconfig driver
>> that was lost during the initial 5.10 kernel introduction, and
>> carefully run-time test it.
>
> Does it make sense to directly convert this board to the upstream DSA
> driver for the Marvell 88E6060 switch:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10.72/source/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c
> It looks like our swconfig driver creates a bridge over all ports and
> the DSA driver only allows communication between the individual port and
> the CPU port.
>
> I do not know how much effort this is and if you have the device for
> testing.

I do not think that migration to DSA without DT support will be a
practical step. Let's keep it as is until we are able to run new
kernels with it.

-- 
Sergey