[dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2] net/octeontx2: add cn98xx support

[Harman Kalra]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:40:16AM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
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> On 6/24/2020 1:46 PM, Harman Kalra wrote:
> > New cn98xx SOC comes up with two NIX blocks wrt
> > cn96xx, cn93xx, to achieve higher performance.
> > Also the no of cores increased to 36 from 24.
> > 
> > Adding support for cn98xx where need a logic to
> > detect if the LF is attached to NIX0 or NIX1 and
> > then accordingly use the respective NIX block.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra at marvell.com>
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> > *V2: updated make/meson configs with the increased no of
> > cores.
> 
> Since this is new SoC support I think can be good to highlight in the release
> notes, what do you think?

Yes, this PMD update information should be captured in release notes.
But since this patch has already been merged to dpdk-next-net-mrvl tree,
so can I send a new patch with release notes only and later you can
squash both the patches together.

Thanks
Harman