Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Freescale DPAA FMan

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:52:12 -0500

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:21 +0300, Madalin Bucur wrote:
> The Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA)
> is a set of hardware components on specific QorIQ multicore
> processors. This architecture provides the infrastructure to
> support simplified sharing of networking interfaces and
> accelerators by multiple CPU cores and the accelerators.
> 
> One of the DPAA accelerators is the Frame Manager (FMan)
> which contains a series of hardware blocks: ports, Ethernet
> MACs, a multi user RAM (MURAM) and Storage Profile (SP).
> 
> This patch set introduced the FMan driver code that configures
> and initializes the FMan hardware blocks, offering support for
> three different types of MACs (DTSEC, TGEC, MEMAC).
> 
> The first 6 patches present the FMan Foundation Libraries (FLIBs).
> The FMan drivers make use of the basic API the FMan FLib provides
> to configure and control the FMan hardware. The remaining patches
> present the required FMan hardware module drivers.
> 
> The driver structure and a hint on file naming:
>  --------------------------------
> >      FMan MAC driver           |    mac* files
>  ------ ------ ----- ------- ----
> > FMan | Port | MAC | MURAM | SP |    fm_* files
>  ------ ------ ----- ------- ----
> :      : FLib :     :                 fman_* files
>  -------------------
> 
> This submission is based on the prior Freescale DPAA FMan V3,RFC
> submission. Several issues addresses in this submission:
>       - Reduced MAC layering and complexity
>       - Reduced code base
>       - T1024/T2080 10G best effort support

How is this different from the patchset Igal posted 7 hours earlier?

Please don't use the chained reply option in git send-email (and the 
patches are in the wrong order, which makes the chained reply 
especially bad).

I don't see any mention of a dependency on the qbman patches.
Where is the actual ethernet driver -- the part that sends and 
receives packets?

-Scott