[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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