bmips is using Broadcom B53 DSA driver which means the ethernet driver
must compensate for 6 bytes tags from the internal switch.
This means using NET_IP_ALIGN actually misaligns the skb, lowering
performance significantly. Therefore napi_alloc_skb() which uses
NET_IP_ALIGN is changed to netdev_alloc_skb().
Performance in iperf3 is increased from ~47Mbps to 52Mbps.
Signed-off-by: Sieng Piaw Liew <liew.s.piaw@gmail.com>
In the current state, nvmem cells are only detected on platform device.
To quickly fix the problem, we register the affected problematic driver
with the of_platform but that is more an hack than a real solution.
Backport from net-next the required patch so that nvmem can work also
with non-platform devices and rework our current patch.
Drop the mediatek and dsa workaround and rework the ath10k patches.
Rework every driver that use the of_get_mac_address api.
Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
This adds experimental ethernet support for BCM6318, BCM6328, BCM6362, BCM6368
and BCM63268.
BCM6358 needs a different driver, so there's no support for now.
Working devices:
- Comtrend AR-5315u
- Comtrend AR-5387un
- Comtrend VR-3025u
- Comtrend VR-3032u
Not working devices:
- Netgear DGND3700 v2 (no idea on how the external switch is connected)
- Huawei HG556a ver B (BCM6358 needs a separate driveer)
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
