From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru@marvell.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Abhijit Ayarekar <aayarekar@marvell.com>,
Satananda Burla <sburla@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 1/7] octeon_ep: Add driver framework and device initialization
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:53:27 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c59ded56-23a0-a600-c669-1307d3ff1be4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220413033503.3962-2-vburru@marvell.com>
On 4/13/22 10:34, Veerasenareddy Burru wrote:
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +
> +====================================================================
> +Linux kernel networking driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC
> +====================================================================
> +
> +Network driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI EndPoint NIC.
> +Copyright (c) 2020 Marvell International Ltd.
> +
> +Contents
> +========
> +
> +- `Overview`_
> +- `Supported Devices`_
> +- `Interface Control`_
> +
Why did you manually add table of contents?
> +Interface Control
> +=================
> +Network Interface control like changing mtu, link speed, link down/up are
> +done by writing command to mailbox command queue, a mailbox interface
> +implemented through a reserved region in BAR4.
> +This driver writes the commands into the mailbox and the firmware on the
> +Octeon device processes them. The firmware also sends unsolicited notifications
> +to driver for events suchs as link change, through notification queue
> +implemented as part of mailbox interface.
How does one write to mailbox command queue?
--
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-13 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-13 3:34 [net-next PATCH v5 0/7] Add octeon_ep driver Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 3:34 ` [net-next PATCH v5 1/7] octeon_ep: Add driver framework and device initialization Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 8:53 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2022-04-13 9:51 ` Leon Romanovsky
2022-04-13 3:34 ` [net-next PATCH v5 2/7] octeon_ep: add hardware configuration APIs Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 3:34 ` [net-next PATCH v5 3/7] octeon_ep: Add mailbox for control commands Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 3:35 ` [net-next PATCH v5 4/7] octeon_ep: add Tx/Rx ring resource setup and cleanup Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 3:35 ` [net-next PATCH v5 5/7] octeon_ep: add support for ndo ops Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 3:35 ` [net-next PATCH v5 6/7] octeon_ep: add Tx/Rx processing and interrupt support Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 3:35 ` [net-next PATCH v5 7/7] octeon_ep: add ethtool support for Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC Veerasenareddy Burru
2022-04-13 12:00 ` [net-next PATCH v5 0/7] Add octeon_ep driver patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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