[PATCH v7 04/12] net/nfp: add initial flower firmware support
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at xilinx.com
Mon Sep 5 17:39:34 CEST 2022
On 8/12/2022 11:22 AM, Chaoyong He wrote:
> Adds the basic probing infrastructure to support the flower firmware.
> This firmware is geared towards offloading OVS and can generally be
> found in /lib/firmware/netronome/flower. It is also used by the NFP
> kernel driver when OVS offload with TC is desired.
'/lib/firmware/netronome/flower' FW is loaded (automatically ?) by
kernel driver, right?
Is there anything related to the DPDK with the name/path of the FW?
And I wonder if these kind of information should be part of driver
documentation?
<...>
> @@ -965,6 +968,16 @@
> goto hwqueues_cleanup;
> }
> break;
> + case NFP_APP_FLOWER_NIC:
> + PMD_INIT_LOG(INFO, "Initializing Flower");
> + pci_dev->device.driver = &pci_drv->driver;
Why this assignment is required? Driver shouldn't need to update this
bus related data struct.
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