From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:50:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20170606.115007.553758514141293520.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170605151724.GA20182@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org, alexei.starovoitov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, saeedm-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org, dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, jsorensen-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org, andy.shevchenko-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-fpga-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, atull-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org, yi1.li-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org, borisp-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org To: ilant-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Ilan Tayari Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:52:15 +0000 > The fact that we configure the FPGA using special inband packets isn't > changing anything. IMO, it might have been any other bus on the card, > standard or proprietary, and the arguments for how to design the driver > would stay the same. +1 > So neither the host stack nor the network are aware of them. > They exist momentarily only on the internal traces on the board and not > anywhere else. +1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html