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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] IB/hns: Add hca support
To: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
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On 2016/5/3 16:14, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Wei Hu (Xavier)
> <xavier.huwei@huawei.com> wrote:
>> On 2016/4/30 12:33, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>
>>> Can you elaborate what design aspects in the driver or anywhere else
>>> should impose that limitation?
>> 1.  Oulijun resolved the problem, and sent PATCH V6 on 2016-4-28. Thanks for
>> more comments.
> V6 still conditions things on ARM
>
>
>> 2.  This driver for Hisilicon RoCE Engine run in ARM SoCs.
>> The Hisilicon Network Subsystem is a long term evolution IP which is
>> supposed to be used in Hisilicon ICT SoCs. HNS(Hisilicon Network Subsystem)
>> has a hardware support of performing RDMA with RoCE engine.
> I understand that the HW is targeted just for ARM environments. Is
> this the reason
> why you want to impose this build limitation or there's something in
> the driver design
> or code that is not going to work in other environments?
yes.

Regards
Wei Hu
>
>> This Kconfig related with this driver as below:
>>
>> config INFINIBAND_HISILICON_HNS
>>      tristate "Hisilicon Hns ROCE Driver"
>>      depends on NET_VENDOR_HISILICON
>>      depends on ARM64 && HNS && HNS_DSAF && HNS_ENET
> this is understood, my question came to better understand the limitations
>
> .
>