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Microchip LAN969x SoC Going Upstream In Linux 6.18

([Linux Networking] 6 Hours Ago Microchip LAN969x SoC)


One of the new SoCs to be supported by the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel is the Microchip LAN969x.

The Microchip LAN969x SoC is used by various Ethernet switches with bandwidth capabilities ranging from 48 to 102 Gbps and up to a total of 30 ports. In turn with these capabilities the LAN969x powers Ethernet switches ranging from 30 ports with Gigabit speeds or 22 ports with 2.5 Gbps connectivity down to 10 ports with 10 Gbps speeds. The Microchip LAN969x uses an Arm Cortex-A53 CPU.

Microchip has the LAN969x 24-port EVB as a 24x 1G + 4x 10G switch as a development board built around this SoC.

With [1]this pull request submitted from Microchip Technology, the initial infrastructure for supporting the Microchip LAN969x SoC is going upstream to the Linux kernel with the next merge window.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250915123548.13722-1-nicolas.ferre@microchip.com/



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We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was
also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her
boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the
bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad
rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished
there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...]
"Stop the car," the girl said.
There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the
woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an
arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway
belle's for thee."
The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie.
Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey
onto my granola and faced a new day.
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