From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755676AbbCEMcy (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:32:54 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f170.google.com ([209.85.213.170]:36078 "EHLO mail-ig0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752498AbbCEMcw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:32:52 -0500 Message-ID: <54F84CF1.80702@mojatatu.com> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:32:49 -0500 From: Jamal Hadi Salim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emil Medve , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Igal Liberman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Freescale DPAA FMan FLIB(s) References: <1425534351-1065-1-git-send-email-Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <1425534351-1065-1-git-send-email-Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/05/15 00:45, Emil Medve wrote: > From: Igal Liberman > > The Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) is a set of > hardware components on specific QorIQ P and T series multicore processors. > This architecture provides the infrastructure to support simplified > sharing of networking interfaces and accelerators by multiple CPU cores, > and the accelerators themselves. > > One of the DPAA accelerators is the Frame Manager (FMan), which > combines the Ethernet network interfaces with packet distribution > logic to provide intelligent distribution and queuing decisions for > incoming traffic at line rate. > > This patch presents the FMan Foundation Libraries (FLIB) headers. > The FMan FLIB suite adds basic support for the DPAA FMan hardware register access. > The FMan FLIB suite is used in Freescale's SDK Releases. > Is this intended to merely enable your sdk? How are you planning to add support for your classifiers, queue schedulers etc? Is that a patch on top of this or it is something that sits on user space? cheers, jamal