Hi Ferruh This PMD, while running on a host, drives octeontx/octeontx2 over pci bus, where as "OcteonTx and OcteonTx2 net drivers" run on respective Tx/Tx2 SOCs to make use of h/w blocks present on the SOC.
Thanks Pradeep. -----Original Message----- From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 5:22 PM To: Pradeep Kumar Nalla <pna...@marvell.com> Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jer...@marvell.com>; Satananda Burla <sbu...@marvell.com>; dev@dpdk.org Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Octeon Tx/Tx2 Endpoint pmd External Email ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 12/31/2020 7:22 AM, Nalla, Pradeep wrote: > From: "Nalla Pradeep" <pna...@marvell.com> > > This patch set contains PMD with minimal set of operations that can > drive both Octeon Tx and Tx2 in endpoint. > Hi Pradeep, There is already octeontx and octeontx2 net drivers, what is the difference of the 'endpoint' driver, why it is needed, can you please give more information? > Nalla, Pradeep (15): > net/octeontx_ep: add build and doc infrastructure > net/octeontx_ep: add ethdev probe and remove > net/octeontx_ep: add device init and uninit > net/octeontx_ep: Added basic device setup. > net/octeontx_ep: Add dev info get and configure > net/octeontx_ep: Added rxq setup and release > net/octeontx_ep: Added tx queue setup and release > net/octeontx_ep: Setting up iq and oq registers > net/octeontx_ep: Added dev start and stop > net/octeontx_ep: Receive data path function added > net/octeontx_ep: Transmit data path function added > net/octeontx_ep: INFO PTR mode support added. > net/octeontx_ep: stats get/reset and link update > net/octeontx_ep: rx queue interrupt > net/octeontx_ep: Input output reset. > <...>
