[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 05/17] raw/ifpga/base: add device tree support
Pei, Andy
andy.pei at intel.com
Thu Oct 10 11:37:03 CEST 2019
Hi Xiaolong
I will do that in v8.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ye, Xiaolong
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 6:33 PM
To: Pei, Andy <andy.pei at intel.com>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Xu, Rosen <rosen.xu at intel.com>; Zhang, Tianfei <tianfei.zhang at intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 05/17] raw/ifpga/base: add device tree support
This patch introduces the dependency on libfdt, so we need to disable ipn3ke driver by default in config/common_base, otherwise it would cause a build error.
On 09/26, Andy Pei wrote:
>From: Tianfei zhang <tianfei.zhang at intel.com>
>
>In PAC N3000 card, this is a BMC chip which using MAX10 FPGA to manage
>the board configuration, like sensors, flash controller, QSFP, powers.
>And this is a SPI bus connected between A10 FPGA and MAX10, we can
>access the MAX10 registers over this SPI bus.
>
>In BMC, there are about 19 sensors in MAX10 chip, including the FPGA
>core temperature, Board temperature, board current, voltage and so on.
>
>We use DTB (Device tree table) to describe it. This DTB file is store
>in nor flash partition, which will flashed in Factory when the boards
>delivery to customers. And the same time, the customers can easy to
>customizate the BMC configuration like change the sensors.
>
>Add device tree support by using libfdt library in Linux distribution.
>The end-user should pre-install the libfdt and libfdt-devel package
>before use DPDK on PAC N3000 Card.
>
>For Centos 7.x: sudo yum install libfdt libfdt-devel For Ubuntu 18.04:
>sudo apt install libfdt-dev libfdt1
We'll need to add this info to document.
Thanks,
Xiaolong
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