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Ten64, WHLE-LS1, and HoneyComb

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My wiki page with links to some status URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/BjoernZeeb/

Contact: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.ORG>

Solid-Run’s HoneyComb, Traverse Technologies’s Ten64 and some versions of Conclusive Engineering’s WHLE-LS1 all are NXP based platforms with the Data Path Acceleration Architecture Gen2 (DPAA2).

Work has happened to support or improve support for peripherals on these boards.

For DPAA2 I have local changes which will need review (or further discussion):

  • Cleanup of memac (MDIO) code reducing bus attachment (ACPI and FDT specific) code into more common code.

  • Cleanup of MC bus attachment code (again ACPI, FDT).

  • For reasons of mii_fdt.c support on some PHYs on FDT-based platforms restructure MAC/MII code and mostly migrate it out of the network interface (NI).

  • Improve Dmitry Salychev’s (dsl) initial SFF/SFP code, prototyping a bus similar to MII for SFP with the hope that with more work it can grow into a larger, general FreeBSD framework and hooked it up to DPMAC.

  • With this, minimal support (still fairly hacked up) for "managed" SFP+ mode (using the Ten64 terminology) is usable on FDT-based systems using DAC and fiber cables.

  • Add more sysctl statistics to DPMAC and NI.

In short, I mostly cleaned up some of the mess I contributed to during the initial bring-up.

For the LS1088a based WHLE-LS1 systems changes include:

  • device-tree file updates.

  • Added support for the PCA9546 I2C Switch (committed).

  • Added basic support for the PCAL6524 24-bit Fm+ I2C-bus/SMBus I/O expander.

  • Added basic support for the PCA9633 4-bit Fm+ I2C-bus LED driver to drive the status LEDs.

  • Added support to program the rgephy(4) LEDs (which needs to be validated).

  • Started testing the eMMC with MMCCAM and GENERIC but had trouble (needs further investigation, seemed fine from firmware for updates).

  • Tested one of three PCIe slots and USB fine.

For the Ten64:

  • Most of the basic lifting happened a while ago and it has generally been usable.

  • Detecting the VSC8514 PHY as such went in end of last year.

  • Used as the default platform to test the DPAA2 changes and SFP/SFP+ code.

In addition Pierre-Luc Drouin has overhauled the Vybrid I2C support now attaching and working on both FDT- and ACPI-based systems (committed).

Sponsor: Traverse Technologies (Ten64 hardware a while ago, support)

Last modified on: May 2, 2024 by Lorenzo Salvadore