Hi Ferruh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 7:59 PM
> To: Sun, GuinanX <guinanx....@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Skajewski, PiotrX <piotrx.skajew...@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/21] net/ixgbe/base: added API for NVM
> update
>
> 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?
V2 patch will remove this code.
