From: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
oss-drivers <oss-drivers@corigine.com>,
Nole Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>,
Long Wu <Long.Wu@nephogine.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] net/nfp: add the elf module
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 01:13:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR13MB5545DF90114710C7086353E99E232@SJ0PR13MB5545.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c833fe5-0a9f-4612-af3a-d505834737c8@amd.com>
> On 2/28/2024 10:18 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:15:49 +0800
> > Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>
> >>
> >> Add the elf module, which can get mip information from the firmware
> >> ELF file.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Long Wu <long.wu@corigine.com>
> >> ---
> >
> > Why are you rolling your own ELF parser?
> > There are libraries to do this such as libelf.
> > Libelf is already used in the BPF part of DPDK.
> >
>
> There cons and pros to depend external library, as this is in the limited scope of
> the driver I am less concerned about local code.
>
> Chaoyong, what is your take on the issue, did you consider using libelf library
> option?
Firstly, the nffw firmware file is a customed ELF file, we are not sure the libelf library can meet our needs totally.
Then, we share the same logic with our BSP code, and we don't want to have two different logic for the same requirement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-04 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-27 11:15 [PATCH 0/3] reload the firmware as needed Chaoyong He
2024-02-27 11:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] net/nfp: add the elf module Chaoyong He
2024-02-28 16:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-03-01 2:38 ` Chaoyong He
2024-02-28 22:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-01 17:22 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-03-04 1:13 ` Chaoyong He [this message]
2024-03-04 8:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-02-27 11:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] net/nfp: reload the firmware only when firmware changed Chaoyong He
2024-02-27 11:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] net/nfp: add force reload firmware option Chaoyong He
2024-02-28 16:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-03-01 2:06 ` Chaoyong He
2024-03-01 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] reload the firmware as needed Chaoyong He
2024-03-01 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] net/nfp: add the elf module Chaoyong He
2024-03-01 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] net/nfp: reload the firmware only when firmware changed Chaoyong He
2024-03-01 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] net/nfp: add force reload firmware option Chaoyong He
2024-03-04 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] reload the firmware as needed Ferruh Yigit
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=SJ0PR13MB5545DF90114710C7086353E99E232@SJ0PR13MB5545.namprd13.prod.outlook.com \
--to=chaoyong.he@corigine.com \
--cc=Long.Wu@nephogine.com \
--cc=dev@dpdk.org \
--cc=ferruh.yigit@amd.com \
--cc=oss-drivers@corigine.com \
--cc=peng.zhang@corigine.com \
--cc=stephen@networkplumber.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).