Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Freescale DPAA FMan FLIB(s)

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:32:49 -0500

On 03/05/15 00:45, Emil Medve wrote:
> From: Igal Liberman <[email-masked]>
>
> The Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) is a set of
> hardware components on specific QorIQ P and T series multicore processors.
> This architecture provides the infrastructure to support simplified
> sharing of networking interfaces and accelerators by multiple CPU cores,
> and the accelerators themselves.
>
> One of the DPAA accelerators is the Frame Manager (FMan), which
> combines the Ethernet network interfaces with packet distribution
> logic to provide intelligent distribution and queuing decisions for
> incoming traffic at line rate.
>
> This patch presents the FMan Foundation Libraries (FLIB) headers.
> The FMan FLIB suite adds basic support for the DPAA FMan hardware register access.
> The FMan FLIB suite is used in Freescale's SDK Releases.
>

Is this intended to merely enable your sdk? How are you planning to
add support for your classifiers, queue schedulers etc? Is that a patch
on top of this or it is something that sits on user space?

cheers,
jamal