On 6/12/2020 4:23 AM, Guinan Sun wrote:
> When Secure Boot is enabled access to the /dev/mem is forbidden
> for user-space applications and clients are reporting inability
> to use tools in Secure Boot Mode. The way to perform NVM update
> is to use ixgbe driver. Currently 10G Linux Base Driver has API
> which allows only EEPROM access. There is a need to extend IOCTL
> API to allow NVM and registers access.
If I understand this correctly, this is to enable NVM update through 'ixgbe'
kernel driver, is this needed for the DPDK?
>
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Skajewski <piotrx.skajew...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guinan Sun <guinanx....@intel.com>
<...>
> @@ -4200,6 +4236,10 @@ struct ixgbe_hw {
> bool allow_unsupported_sfp;
> bool wol_enabled;
> bool need_crosstalk_fix;
> +#ifdef IXGBE_NVMUPD_SUPPORT
> + /* NVM Update features */
> + struct ixgbe_nvm_features nvmupd_features;
> +#endif
In DPDK is there anywhere that sets this 'IXGBE_NVMUPD_SUPPORT' define?
