[RFC PATCH 00/29] cover letter for net/qdma PMD

[Hemant Agrawal]

On 7/7/2022 7:45 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 07/07/2022 15:55, Aman Kumar:
>> On 07/07/22 12:27 pm, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 06/07/2022 09:51, Aman Kumar:
>>>> This patch series provides net PMD for VVDN's NR(5G) Hi-PHY solution over
>>>> T1 telco card. These telco accelerator NIC cards are targeted for ORAN DU
>>>> systems to offload inline NR Hi-PHY (split 7.2) operations. For the DU host,
>>>> the cards typically appears as a basic NIC device. The device is based on
>>>> AMD/Xilinx's Ultrasale MPSoC and RFSoC FPGA for which the inline Hi-PHY IP
>>>> is developed by VVDN Technologies Private Limited.
>>>> PCI_VENDOR: 0x1f44, Supported Devices: 0x0201, 0x0281
>>>>
>>>> Hardware-specs:
>>>> https://www.xilinx.com/publications/product-briefs/xilinx-t1-product-brief.pdf
>>>>
>>>> - This series is an RFC and target for DPDK v22.11.
>>>> - Currently, the PMD is supported only for x86_64 host.
>>>> - Build machine used: Fedora 36 with gcc 12.1.1
>>>> - The device communicates to host over AMD/Xilinx's QDMA subsystem for
>>>>     PCIe interface. Link: https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/pg302-qdma
>>> That's unfortunate, there is something else called QDMA in NXP solution:
>>> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/drivers/dma/dpaa2
>> Is this going to create a conflict against this submission? I guess both are publicly available/known for long time.
> If it's the marketing name, go for it,
> but it is unfortunate.

QDMA is a very generic name and many vendors have IP for it.

My suggestions is the qualify the specific driver with vendor name i.e. 
amd_qdma or xilinx_qdma or something similar.

NXP also did the same dpaa2_qdma



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