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 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.
