net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Disentangle STU from VTU

In early LinkStreet silicon (e.g. 6095/6185), the per-VLAN STP states
were kept in the VTU - there was no concept of a SID. Later, the
information was split into two tables, where the VTU only tracked
memberships and deferred the STP state tracking to the STU via a
pointer (SID). This meant that a group of VLANs could share the same
STU entry. Most likely, this was done to align with MSTP (802.1Q-2018,
Clause 13), which is built on this principle.

While the VTU is still 4k lines on most devices, the STU is capped at
64 entries. This means that the current stategy, updating STU info
whenever a VTU entry is updated, can not easily support MSTP because:

- The maximum number of VIDs would also be capped at 64, as we would
  have to allocate one SID for every VTU entry - even if many VLANs
  would effectively share the same MST.

- MSTP updates would be unnecessarily slow as you would have to
  iterate over all VLANs that share the same MST.

In order to support MSTP offloading in the future, manage the STU as a
separate entity from the VTU.

Only add support for newer hardware with separate VTU and
STU. VTU-only devices can also be supported, but essentially this
requires a software implementation of an STU (fanning out state
changed to all VLANs tied to the same MST).

Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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