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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Oct 12 12:16:28 CEST 2018


12/10/2018 11:32, Shreyansh Jain:
> 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?

Yes

> (Ideally being driver code, this should have been with Ferruh but 
> patchwork is showing your name).

Ferruh is taking patches for drivers/net/ and related.
This series is touching a lot more.





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