From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@qlogic.com>,
"Dept-Eng DPDK Dev" <Dept-EngDPDKDev@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:16:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D3743AC0.26523%harish.patil@qlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3097451.lmEbFpK4k3@xps13>
>
>2016-05-31 19:21, Harish Patil:
>>
>> >On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 09:21:31PM -0700, Rasesh Mody wrote:
>> >> From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
>> >>
>> >> Under certain scenarios, MFW periodically polls the driver
>> >> for LAN statistics. This patch implements the osal hook to
>> >> fill in the stats.
>> >>
>> >> Fixes: ffa002d318d36 ("qede: add base driver")
>> >>
>> >What is MFW?
>> >
>> >/Bruce
>> >
>>
>> MFW - Management FirmWare running on the card.
>
>So MFW can probably be replaced by firmware in the title.
>
Reason I didn’t use “firmware” in the first place is because there are two
different firmware running on the card:
1) MFW (management firmware - which is flashed)
2) Firmware (datapath firmware - loaded by driver by reading FW file)
So, I can replace it as management firmware explicitly.
Thanks,
Harish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-01 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-07 4:21 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] qede: rename config option Rasesh Mody
2016-05-07 4:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] qede: return LAN stats to MFW Rasesh Mody
2016-05-30 14:34 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-31 19:21 ` Harish Patil
2016-06-01 9:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-01 14:16 ` Harish Patil [this message]
2016-06-01 14:31 ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-06-01 14:33 ` Harish Patil
2016-05-30 14:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] qede: rename config option Bruce Richardson
2016-06-03 15:01 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-03 15:54 ` Rasesh Mody
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