[RFC PATCH 00/29] cover letter for net/qdma PMD
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at amd.com
Mon Jul 3 11:15:45 CEST 2023
On 7/3/2023 12:36 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi Stephen,
I can confirm that this work is stalled, and it is not clear yet if
there will be a new version or not, so OK to clean this from patchwork.
Thanks,
ferruh
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