[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/22] NXP DPAA2 FSLMC Bus driver

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/24/2017 12:41 PM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> (This patches has been split from DPAA2 PMD v8 series [1] as per
> comments received on ML [2].)
> 
> The patchset introduces NXP’s QorIQ-Layerscape DPAA2 Architecture based
> fsl-mc bus driver. This version of the driver supports NXP LS208xA,
> LS204xA and LS108x family of Network SoCs.
> 
> This driver is base for DPAA2 based PMD to be introduced in later patches.
> It will be used by dpaa2 net, crypto, event & other devices.
> The details description of this bus along with PMD is part of later patch
> sets for introducing the NXP DPAA2 PMD.
> 
> There are 3 main components of the FSLMC bus which enable the access to
> DPAA2 devices from userspace:
> 1) QBMAN hardware: Which enables application lock-less access to hardware
>    queues and buffers.
> 2) MC or Management Complex: Layer between Userspace and elements on the
>    FSLMC bus. This layer exposes underlying hardware as 'objects' and
>    allows for their configuration. Some of the key objects exposed are:
>     - DPNI, which refers to the network interface object.
>     - DPBP, which refers to HW based memory pool object
>     - DPIO, refers to processing context for accessing QBMAN
> 3) Portal: For accessing the hardware objects exposed by MC, a continuous
>    mapped area is available in form of objects.
> 
> This patchset introduces the above components.
> 
> Future Changes/Caveats:
> 
> 1) VFIO code for fsl-mc bus is different than eal-vfio code for pci bus.
>    This need to be re-worked to make possible re-use of the existing code.
> 
> References:
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-March/059000.html
> [2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-March/059789.html
> 
> ---
> v2:
> * rebased on next-net (b36be54c)
> * removing "-Wno-strict-alias" from makefile
> 
> Hemant Agrawal (21):
>   mk/dpaa2: add the crc support to the machine type
>   bus/fslmc: introducing fsl-mc bus driver
>   bus/fslmc: add QBMAN driver to bus
>   bus/fslmc: introduce MC object functions
>   bus/fslmc: add mc dpio object support
>   bus/fslmc: add mc dpbp object support
>   eal/vfio: adding vfio utility functions in map file
>   bus/fslmc: add vfio support
>   bus/fslmc: scan for net and sec device
>   bus/fslmc: add debug log support
>   bus/fslmc: dpio portal driver
>   bus/fslmc: introduce support for hardware mempool object
>   bus/fslmc: affine dpio to crypto threads
>   bus/fslmc: define queues for DPAA2 devices
>   bus/fslmc: define hardware annotation area size
>   bus/fslmc: introduce true and false macros
>   bus/fslmc: define VLAN header length
>   bus/fslmc: add packet FLE definitions
>   bus/fslmc: add physical-virtual address translation helpers
>   bus/fslmc: add support for DMA mapping for ARM SMMU
>   bus/fslmc: frame queue based dq storage alloc
> 
> Shreyansh Jain (1):
>   mk: handle intra drivers dependencies for shared build

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.