<html><head></head><body><div class="">Hi Thomas Monjalon,<br><br>Thank you for your review and for guiding me on the mailing list workflow.<br><br>> Please could you send your new series as a reply of the v1 cover letter?<br>> It would avoid having a large indent in mail clients.<br><br>Got it. I will configure git send-email with "--in-reply-to" bound to the <br>v1 cover letter Message-ID for the next version of this patch set. <br>Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the deep threading.<br><br>> Also I'm still waiting for a reply to my question about the need<br>> for drivers/common/sxe2/.<br>> I'm not going to pull any sxe2 patch into main until you explain.<br><br>Regarding the necessity of the "drivers/common/sxe2/" directory, the sxe2 <br>hardware architecture is designed to support both standard NIC and vDPA <br>(vHost Data Path Acceleration) functionalities. <br><br>The code currently placed in "drivers/common/sxe2/" contains the foundational <br>Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), firmware interfaces (AdminQ), and common <br>register definitions. <br><br>Apart from the "net/sxe2" PMD in this series, we are actively implementing the <br>"vdpa/sxe2" driver, which will be submitted in a subsequent patch set. Both the <br>"net/sxe2" and "vdpa/sxe2" drivers strictly depend on this shared common HAL <br>layer to manage the same hardware core. Separating this code into "drivers/common/" <br>is essential to prevent massive code duplication between the net and vdpa <br>subsystems in the near future.<br><br>Please let me know if this clarifies your concern. Once confirmed, I will <br>send out the updated v15 series as a reply to the v1 cover letter immediately.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Jie Liu (liujie5@linkdatatechnology.com)</div><div> </div><hr style="WIDTH: 210px; HEIGHT: 1px" color="#b5c4df" size="1" align="left"><div><span><div style="MARGIN: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><div>liujie5@linkdatatechnology.com</div></div></span></div><blockquote style="margin-Top: 0px; margin-Bottom: 0px; margin-Left: 0.5em; margin-Right: inherit"><div> </div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 8px; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma;COLOR:#000000; BACKGROUND: #efefef; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; PADDING-TOP: 8px"><div><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:thomas@monjalon.net">Thomas Monjalon</a></div><div><b>Date:</b> 2026-06-09 16:42</div><div><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:liujie5@linkdatatechnology.com">Jie Liu</a></div><div><b>CC:</b> <a href="mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org">stephen</a>; <a href="mailto:dev@dpdk.org">dev</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PATCH v14 00/20] net/sxe2: added Linkdata sxe2 ethernet driver</div></div></div><div><div class=""><style>div.FoxDIV_20260609171540884 { font-size: 10.5pt; transform: translatez(0); overflow: auto; }
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<div class="plaintext_qoute">> This patch set implements core functionality for the SXE2 PMD,
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<div class="plaintext_qoute">> including basic driver framework, data path setup, and advanced
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<div class="plaintext_qoute">> offload features (VLAN, RSS,TM, PTP etc.).
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<div>Please could you send your new series as a reply of the v1 cover letter?
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<div>It would avoid having a large indent in mail clients.
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<div>Also I'm still waiting for a reply to my question about the need
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<div>I'm not going to pull any sxe2 patch into main until you explain.
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