[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] drivers: remove octeontx2 drivers

Akhil Goyal gakhil at marvell.com
Tue Dec 7 09:12:27 CET 2021


> As per the deprecation notice,  In the view of enabling unified driver
> for octeontx2(cn9k)/octeontx3(cn10k), removing drivers/octeontx2
> drivers and replace with drivers/cnxk/ which
> supports both octeontx2(cn9k) and octeontx3(cn10k) SoCs.
> 
> This patch does the following
> 
> - Replace drivers/common/octeontx2/ with drivers/common/cnxk/
> - Replace drivers/mempool/octeontx2/ with drivers/mempool/cnxk/
> - Replace drivers/net/octeontx2/ with drivers/net/cnxk/
> - Replace drivers/event/octeontx2/ with drivers/event/cnxk/
> - Replace drivers/crypto/octeontx2/ with drivers/crypto/cnxk/
> - Rename config/arm/arm64_octeontx2_linux_gcc as
>   config/arm/arm64_cn9k_linux_gcc
> - Update the documentation and MAINTAINERS to reflect the same.
> - Change the reference to OCTEONTX2 as OCTEON 9. The kernel related
> documentation is not accounted for this change as kernel documentation
> still uses OCTEONTX2.
> 
> Depends-on: series-20804 ("common/cnxk: add REE HW definitions")
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>

From crypto point of view.
The patch is good.
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>

Old release notes need not be updated as Ferruh suggested.


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