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

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>]

On 7/3/2023 12:36 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:52:20 +0530
> aman.kumar@vvdntech.in wrote:
> 
>>>>>
>>>>> QDMA is a very generic name and many vendors have IP for it.
>>>>>
>>>>> My suggestions is the qualify the specific driver with vendor name i.e.
>>>>> amd_qdma or xilinx_qdma or something similar.
>>>>>
>>>>> NXP also did the same dpaa2_qdma
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>> @Thomas, @Hemant,
>>>> Thank you for highlights and suggestions regarding conflicting names.
>>>> We've discussed this internally and came up with below plan.
>>>>
>>>> For v22.11 DPDK, we would like to submit patches with below renames:
>>>>   drivers/net/qdma -> drivers/net/t1
>>>>   drivers/net/qdma/qdma_*.c/h -> drivers/net/t1/t1_*.c/h
>>>>   driver/net/qdma/qdma_access -> driver/net/t1/base  
>>>
>>> Curious why "t1"?
>>> What is the meaning?  
>>
>> The hardware is commerically named as the "T1 card". T1 represents first card of the telco accelerator series.
>> https://www.xilinx.com/publications/product-briefs/xilinx-t1-product-brief.pdf
>>
> 
> The discussion around this driver stalled. Either hardware abandoned, renamed, or there was no interest.
> If you want to get this in a future DPDK release, please resubmit a new version addressing review comments.
>

Hi Stephen,

I can confirm that this work is stalled, and it is not clear yet if
there will be a new version or not, so OK to clean this from patchwork.

Thanks,
ferruh