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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:52:20 +0530
aman.kumar at vvdntech.in wrote:

> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>  
> > > @Thomas, @Hemant,
> > > Thank you for highlights and suggestions regarding conflicting names.
> > > We've discussed this internally and came up with below plan.
> > >
> > > For v22.11 DPDK, we would like to submit patches with below renames:
> > >   drivers/net/qdma -> drivers/net/t1
> > >   drivers/net/qdma/qdma_*.c/h -> drivers/net/t1/t1_*.c/h
> > >   driver/net/qdma/qdma_access -> driver/net/t1/base  
> > 
> > Curious why "t1"?
> > What is the meaning?  
> 
> The hardware is commerically named as the "T1 card". T1 represents first card of the telco accelerator series.
> https://www.xilinx.com/publications/product-briefs/xilinx-t1-product-brief.pdf
> 

The discussion around this driver stalled. Either hardware abandoned, renamed, or there was no interest.
If you want to get this in a future DPDK release, please resubmit a new version addressing review comments.