From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na01-bl2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bl2on0111.outbound.protection.outlook.com [65.55.169.111]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15E8B1A0E41 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:08:29 +1000 (AEST) Message-ID: <1433962332.2477.118.camel@freescale.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Freescale DPAA FMan From: Scott Wood To: CC: , , , Igal.Liberman Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:52:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1433949712-5648-1-git-send-email-madalin.bucur@freescale.com> References: <1433949712-5648-1-git-send-email-madalin.bucur@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:21 +0300, Madalin Bucur wrote: > The Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) > is a set of hardware components on specific QorIQ multicore > processors. This architecture provides the infrastructure to > support simplified sharing of networking interfaces and > accelerators by multiple CPU cores and the accelerators. > > One of the DPAA accelerators is the Frame Manager (FMan) > which contains a series of hardware blocks: ports, Ethernet > MACs, a multi user RAM (MURAM) and Storage Profile (SP). > > This patch set introduced the FMan driver code that configures > and initializes the FMan hardware blocks, offering support for > three different types of MACs (DTSEC, TGEC, MEMAC). > > The first 6 patches present the FMan Foundation Libraries (FLIBs). > The FMan drivers make use of the basic API the FMan FLib provides > to configure and control the FMan hardware. The remaining patches > present the required FMan hardware module drivers. > > The driver structure and a hint on file naming: > -------------------------------- > > FMan MAC driver | mac* files > ------ ------ ----- ------- ---- > > FMan | Port | MAC | MURAM | SP | fm_* files > ------ ------ ----- ------- ---- > : : FLib : : fman_* files > ------------------- > > This submission is based on the prior Freescale DPAA FMan V3,RFC > submission. Several issues addresses in this submission: > - Reduced MAC layering and complexity > - Reduced code base > - T1024/T2080 10G best effort support How is this different from the patchset Igal posted 7 hours earlier? Please don't use the chained reply option in git send-email (and the patches are in the wrong order, which makes the chained reply especially bad). I don't see any mention of a dependency on the qbman patches. Where is the actual ethernet driver -- the part that sends and receives packets? -Scott