[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/15] Upgrade DPAA2 FW and other feature/bug fixes

Shreyansh Jain shreyansh.jain at nxp.com
Fri Oct 12 11:32:47 CEST 2018


On Wednesday 26 September 2018 11:34 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> About the series:
> 
> This series of patches upgrades the DPAA2 driver firmware to
> v10.10.10 (MC Firmware).
> As the bus/fslmc is modified, it is a dependent object for other
> drivers like net/crypto/qdma. Also, the changes are mostly tightly
> linked - thus, the patches include upgrade as well as sequential
> changes to driver.
> Once done, it would imply that DPAA2 driver won't work with any MC
> FW lower than 10.10.10.
> 
> Support for this new firmware is available in publically available
> LSDK (Layerscape SDK) release [1].
> 
> Besides the FW change, there are other subtle changes as well:
> - Support reading the MAC address from NIC device, rather than
>    using a default MAC
> - Adding support for QBMan 5.0 FW APIs
> - Some patches for NXP's LX2 platform specific features
> - And some bug fixes.
> 
> Dependency:
> 
> * These patches are based on net-next/master 58c3b609699a8c
> * Series [1] is logically related to this, but has no git/patch
>    related dependency. It is series for upgrade of DPAA.
> 
> [1] https://lsdk.github.io/index.html
> [2] http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=1090&state=*
> 
> Version History:
> v1->v2:
>   - Bumped up the version of the libraries (pmd/bus/crypto/event) as the
>     first set of patches (MC firmware update) breaks the internal ABI
>   - Added support for ordered processing APIs. These APIs are expected
>     to be used in subseqent feature updates on DPAA2 ethernet driver.
>   - Some internal bug fixes.
>   (Patches increased from 11~15)
> 

Hi Thomas,

Would you be taking this series for RC1?
(Ideally being driver code, this should have been with Ferruh but 
patchwork is showing your name).

-
Shreyansh



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