Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] bbdev: remove experimental tag from API

[Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>]

On 9/1/21 4:54 PM, Chautru, Nicolas wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kinsella, Ray <mdr@ashroe.eu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 4:15 AM
>> To: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; David Marchand
>> <david.marchand@redhat.com>; Chautru, Nicolas
>> <nicolas.chautru@intel.com>
>> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>; Thomas
>> Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>; Zhang,
>> Mingshan <mingshan.zhang@intel.com>; Joshi, Arun
>> <arun.joshi@intel.com>; Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] bbdev: remove experimental tag from API
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>> On 01/09/2021 04:52, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:27 PM Nicolas Chautru
>>>> <nicolas.chautru@intel.com> wrote:
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>>>>> This was previously suggested last year
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>>>>> but there was request from community to wait another year to confirm
>>>> formally this api is mature.
>>>>
>>>> The request was to wait for a new vendor (i.e. non Intel) to
>>>> implement a bbdev driver for their hw.
>>>>
>>>> NXP proposed a driver for this class:
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>>>> What is the status of this driver?
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>>> [Hemant]  We are in process of resending the patches in next few days.
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>> Ok - just so we are clear - the net-net of that, is that the bbdev APIs will be
>> 'experimental'
>> for another year, right?
> 
> There is little reason to defer further I believe. Henant please confirm you are not looking at any ABI change based on discussion for the last few months.
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>>>> I see no update on the bbdev API, which seems good, but a
>>>> confirmation is needed.
> 
> Indeed that's all we need. Confirmation no change is require for new PMD.

Hemant, could you confirm this is good for you?

Thanks,
Maxime

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>>>> David Marchand
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