I've been reminded that the firmware I have can boot the platform with either ACPI and Device Tree tables. I've been in ACPI mode and now, after flipping to DT, the platform boots fine and all 4 interfaces (one thing I haven't noticed that only one was completely missing previously) get detected and are functional. The wget kernel.org/big.tarball works fine now as well, so I think this proves that the CONFIG_MVPP2=m was all that was needed.
Update and good news:
I've been reminded that the firmware I have can boot the platform with either ACPI and Device Tree tables. I've been in ACPI mode and now, after flipping to DT, the platform boots fine and all 4 interfaces (one thing I haven't noticed that only one was completely missing previously) get detected and are functional. The wget kernel. org/big. tarball works fine now as well, so I think this proves that the CONFIG_MVPP2=m was all that was needed.
Thanks!