Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] cover letter for net/qdma PMD

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

07/07/2022 15:55, Aman Kumar:
> On 07/07/22 12:27 pm, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 06/07/2022 09:51, Aman Kumar:
> >> This patch series provides net PMD for VVDN's NR(5G) Hi-PHY solution over
> >> T1 telco card. These telco accelerator NIC cards are targeted for ORAN DU
> >> systems to offload inline NR Hi-PHY (split 7.2) operations. For the DU host,
> >> the cards typically appears as a basic NIC device. The device is based on
> >> AMD/Xilinx's Ultrasale MPSoC and RFSoC FPGA for which the inline Hi-PHY IP
> >> is developed by VVDN Technologies Private Limited.
> >> PCI_VENDOR: 0x1f44, Supported Devices: 0x0201, 0x0281
> >>
> >> Hardware-specs:
> >> https://www.xilinx.com/publications/product-briefs/xilinx-t1-product-brief.pdf
> >>
> >> - This series is an RFC and target for DPDK v22.11.
> >> - Currently, the PMD is supported only for x86_64 host.
> >> - Build machine used: Fedora 36 with gcc 12.1.1
> >> - The device communicates to host over AMD/Xilinx's QDMA subsystem for
> >>    PCIe interface. Link: https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/pg302-qdma
> > That's unfortunate, there is something else called QDMA in NXP solution:
> > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/drivers/dma/dpaa2
> 
> Is this going to create a conflict against this submission? I guess both are publicly available/known for long time.

If it's the marketing name, go for it,
but it is unfortunate.