[PATCH v11 1/5] net/enetfec: introduce NXP ENETFEC driver

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/23/2023 6:00 AM, Sachin Saxena (OSS) wrote:
> On 3/21/2023 11:33 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 11/15/2021 7:19 AM, Apeksha Gupta wrote:
>>> +ENETFEC
>>> +-------
>>> +
>>> +This section provides an overview of the NXP ENETFEC and how it is
>>> +integrated into the DPDK. Driver is taken as **experimental** as driver
>>> +depends on a Linux kernel module 'enetfec-uio', which is not upstreamed
>>> +yet.
>>
>>
>> Hi Apeksha, Hemant,
>>
>> I wonder what was the fate of the 'enetfec-uio' kernel module, is it
>> upstreamed?
>> Is there any change in the status of the driver?
>>
> 
> It is not up-streamed yet as we got some review comments from internal
> Linux team. The re-use of PHY handling in enetfec-uio driver is point of
> objection.
> So, we are currently working on changing the design and most probably,
> we may design new driver w/o UIO support.
> 

Got it, thanks for update.

I assume users still can get this kernel module via SDK, right?