patch 'doc: update BIOS settings and supported HW for NTB' has been queued to stable release 20.11.9

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 20.11.9

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 07/22/23. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable/commit/246c48341380e4dc4f1074ecdc9c3153feb02bb7

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 246c48341380e4dc4f1074ecdc9c3153feb02bb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 17:24:34 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update BIOS settings and supported HW for NTB

[ upstream commit 00e57b0e550b7df2047e6d0bde8965c7ae17d203 ]

Update BIOS settings and supported platform list for Intel NTB.

Fixes: f5057be340e4 ("raw/ntb: support Intel Ice Lake")

Signed-off-by: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo at intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
index 2bb115d13f..f8befc6594 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ntb.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
     Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
 
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
 NTB Rawdev Driver
 =================
 
@@ -17,19 +19,23 @@ some information by using scratchpad registers.
 BIOS setting on Intel Xeon
 --------------------------
 
-Intel Non-transparent Bridge needs special BIOS setting. The reference for
-Skylake is https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/server-products/Intel_Xeon_Processor_Scalable_Family_BIOS_User_Guide.pdf
-
-- Set the needed PCIe port as NTB to NTB mode on both hosts.
-- Enable NTB bars and set bar size of bar 23 and bar 45 as 12-29 (4K-512M)
-  on both hosts (for Ice Lake, bar size can be set as 12-51, namely 4K-128PB).
-  Note that bar size on both hosts should be the same.
-- Disable split bars for both hosts.
-- Set crosslink control override as DSD/USP on one host, USD/DSP on
-  another host.
-- Disable PCIe PII SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking) for both hosts. This
-  is a hardware requirement.
+Intel Non-transparent Bridge (NTB) needs special BIOS settings on both systems.
+Note that for 4th Generation Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Scalable Processors,
+option ``Port Subsystem Mode`` should be changed from ``Gen5`` to ``Gen4 Only``,
+then reboot.
 
+- Set ``Non-Transparent Bridge PCIe Port Definition`` for needed PCIe ports
+  as ``NTB to NTB`` mode, on both hosts.
+- Set ``Enable NTB BARs`` as ``Enabled``, on both hosts.
+- Set ``Enable SPLIT BARs`` as ``Disabled``, on both hosts.
+- Set ``Imbar1 Size``, ``Imbar2 Size``, ``Embar1 Size`` and ``Embar2 Size``,
+  as 12-29 (i.e., 4K-512M) for 2nd Generation Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Scalable Processors;
+  as 12-51 (i.e., 4K-128PB) for 3rd and 4th Generation Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Scalable Processors.
+  Note that those bar sizes on both hosts should be the same.
+- Set ``Crosslink Control override`` as ``DSD/USP`` on one host,
+  ``USD/DSP`` on another host.
+- Set ``PCIe PLL SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking)`` as ``Disabled``, on both hosts.
+  This is a hardware requirement when using Re-timer Cards.
 
 Device Setup
 ------------
@@ -145,4 +151,8 @@ like the following:
 Limitation
 ----------
 
-- This PMD only supports Intel Skylake and Ice Lake platforms.
+This PMD is only supported on Intel Xeon Platforms:
+
+- 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.
+- 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.
+- 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.
-- 
2.39.2

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2023-07-20 11:54:24.606634726 +0100
+++ 0009-doc-update-BIOS-settings-and-supported-HW-for-NTB.patch	2023-07-20 11:54:24.253504813 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 00e57b0e550b7df2047e6d0bde8965c7ae17d203 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 246c48341380e4dc4f1074ecdc9c3153feb02bb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 00e57b0e550b7df2047e6d0bde8965c7ae17d203 ]
+
@@ -9 +10,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org