[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 17/37] net/dpaa: add support for fmcless mode

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 7/1/2020 5:04 AM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
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> -----Original Message-----
> On 5/27/2020 2:23 PM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
>> From: Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena at nxp.com>
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>> This patch uses fmlib to configure the FMAN HW for flow and 
>> distribution configuration, thus avoiding the need for static FMC tool 
>> execution optionally.
> 
> What is FMC tool? Can you please put more details in the commit log.
> [Hemant] We will add details in next rev. 
> The name of MAC for dpaa platform is FMAN.  FMC is FMAN Management and Configuration Tool, which is used
> for statically configuring number of queues and classification before running the applications. 

Thanks.
Can we say it is a proprietary version of 'ethtool'? Is this a hard dependency
for Linux drivers, should we document this in DPDK?
Was this a dependency for DPDK before this patch? And again should we document this?

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>> Signed-off-by: Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena at nxp.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
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