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

Shreyansh Jain shreyansh.jain at nxp.com
Fri Oct 12 11:42:05 CEST 2018


On Friday 12 October 2018 03:02 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> 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).

Thomas,

I will send a v3; v2 patch apply is broken because of some version bumps 
done for buses on master.


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