Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] nfp: add pf support

[Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
wrote:

> On 8/24/2017 5:20 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> > NFP PMD has just had support for SRIOV VFs until now. This patchset adds
> > support for the PF, but just for being used as another DPDK port. No VF
> > management is added by now.
> >
> > NFP is a programmable device and it supports virtual NICs (vNICs) through
> > firmware implementation. Different firmware applications implement vNICs
> > for PF devices and VF devices, being number of vNICs dependent on the
> > firmware and the NFP card available. PF vNIC (virtual) BARs are a subset
> > of PF PCI device BARs while VF vNIC BARs are same than VF PCI BARs.
> >
> > Working with VF vNICs requires a PF driver uploading the firmware and
> > doing some NFP configuration. This needs can be only done with the kernel
> > NFP PF netdev driver by now.
> >
> > Working with PF vNIC requires the PMD doing the NFP configuration and for
> > accessing the NFP a specific user space interface is created. NFP Service
> > Processor Userspace (NSPU) interface allows to create specific PCI BAR
> > windows for accessing different parts of the NFP device, including the
> > Network Service Processor (NSP) itself. The NSPU interface is implemented
> > as the base for working with the PF.
> >
> > Alejandro Lucero (16):
> >   nfp: add nsp user space interface
> >   nfp: add specific pf probe function
> >   nfp: add support for new pci id
> >   nfp: add nsp support for commands
> >   nfp: add nsp fw upload command
> >   nfp: add nsp symbol resolution command
> >   nfp: add fw upload logic
> >   nfp: add support for vnic config bar mapping
> >   nfp: add support for vNIC rx/tx bar mappings
> >   nfp: support pf devices inside pmd initialization
> >   nfp: allocate eth_dev from pf probe function
> >   nfp: support pf multiport
> >   nfp: add nsp support for hw link configuration
> >   nfp: add support for hw port link configuration
> >   nfp: read pf port mac addr using nsp
> >   doc: update nfp with pf support information
>
> For all patches in the set, can you please run the tool
> ./devtools/check-git-log.sh [1], it checks for some common commit log
> errors.
>
>
> [1]
> ./devtools/check-git-log.sh checks the applied commits in the tree and
> gets commit number to check as parameter:
> "./devtools/check-git-log.sh -16" for this case.
>
>
I will fix this in next patch set version.

Thanks