[PATCH net-next v1 0/5] net: enetc: S32N79 pseudo-MAC (PPM) networking support
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From: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>
Date: 2026-10-09 12:49:08
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This series adds networking support for the ENETCv4.4 pseudo-MAC (PPM) ports found on the NXP S32N79 SoC. On S32N79, the ENETCv4 ports are not wired to any external PHY/MII; instead they are internal "pseudo-MAC" links into the on-chip NETC switch. These links are proprietary, expose no standard IEEE interface, and run at a speed fixed at boot time by the Port PCR[PSPEED] register. A key use case is a port that has no "ethernet" DT node at all: NETC is reached over PCI from a host that probes the ENETC, while the internal NETC switch it connects to is not owned by Linux. Such a port must have its fixed link synthesized at probe time. Rather than hand-building a software node, the driver describes the fixed link with a self-contained DT overlay (following the lan966x PCI approach), applied unmodified via of_overlay_fdt_apply() onto the PCI function's dynamic OF node (CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES). phylink then picks up the fixed-link node through dev_fwnode(); the real operating speed is sourced live from PCR[PSPEED]. The series touches three subsystems: - net/enetc: pseudo-MAC overlay support + probing of 4.4 devices - arm64 dts: NETC IEP18 ECAM node on S32N79 and its RDB board enable - PCI: a quirk creating the OF node for the ENETC PMAC functions Because this is primarily a networking feature and the pieces are interdependent at runtime, it would be most convenient to merge the whole series through the netdev tree. Patch 1 has a runtime (not Kconfig) dependency on CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES; absent that, the pseudo-MAC probe path fails gracefully with -ENODEV. v1: initial submission. Claudiu Manoil (5): net: enetc: Add pseudo-MAC support for ENETCv4 Ports via a DT overlay net: enetc: Enable probing of version 4.4 devices arm64: dts: s32n79: add NETC IEP18 ECAM node for ENETC PPM ports arm64: dts: s32n79-rdb: enable NETC IEP18 PCI: Create OF node for NXP ENETC pseudo-MAC functions arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32n79-rdb.dts | 4 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32n79.dtsi | 24 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c | 12 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.h | 1 + .../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc4_pf.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++-- .../freescale/enetc/enetc4_pseudo_mac.dtso | 32 ++++++ .../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h | 1 + .../freescale/enetc/enetc_pf_common.c | 41 +++++++- .../freescale/enetc/enetc_pf_common.h | 1 + drivers/pci/quirks.c | 2 + 12 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc4_pseudo_mac.dtso base-commit: d8674294aefef02266c4d47ad10131f1bffbe534 -- 2.34.1