[PATCH v11 1/5] net/enetfec: introduce NXP ENETFEC driver

Sachin Saxena (OSS) sachin.saxena at oss.nxp.com
Thu Mar 23 07:00:26 CET 2023


On 3/21/2023 11:33 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 11/15/2021 7:19 AM, Apeksha Gupta wrote:
>> +ENETFEC
>> +-------
>> +
>> +This section provides an overview of the NXP ENETFEC and how it is
>> +integrated into the DPDK. Driver is taken as **experimental** as driver
>> +depends on a Linux kernel module 'enetfec-uio', which is not upstreamed
>> +yet.
> 
> 
> Hi Apeksha, Hemant,
> 
> I wonder what was the fate of the 'enetfec-uio' kernel module, is it
> upstreamed?
> Is there any change in the status of the driver?
> 

It is not up-streamed yet as we got some review comments from internal 
Linux team. The re-use of PHY handling in enetfec-uio driver is point of 
objection.
So, we are currently working on changing the design and most probably, 
we may design new driver w/o UIO support.


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Thanks,
Sachin Saxena
(NXP)



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