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From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> 
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 12:51 PM
To: Somalapuram, Amaranath <amaranath.somalapu...@amd.com>
Cc: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>; dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Akhil Goyal 
<gak...@marvell.com>; Kumar, Ravi1 <ravi1.ku...@amd.com>; Song, Keesang 
<keesang.s...@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] crypto/ccp: enable IOMMU for CCP

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28/05/2021 07:02, Somalapuram, Amaranath:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > 27/05/2021 15:24, David Marchand:
> > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:06 AM <asoma...@amd.com> wrote:
> > > > From: Amaranath Somalapuram <amaranath.somalapu...@amd.com>
> > > >
> > > > CCP use vdev framework, and vdev framework don’t support IOMMU.
> > > > Adding custom IOMMU support for AMD CCP driver.
> > >
> > > I am currently looking at pci bus patches/cleanups.
> > > I ended up looking at crypto/ccp.
> > > This driver code contains a lot of features duplicated with the pci bus.
> > >
> > > Why is the ccp driver not a PCI driver?
> >
> > Indeed it looks abusing vdev.
> > We should drop all the code duplicating the PCI bus driver.
> > If nothing else is done, it would mean breaking the probing of this 
> > driver.
> >
> > Adding more people in Cc list to have a fix before it is broken, thanks.
>
> Enable IOMMU for vdev was not supported in DPDK.
> I can remove all the duplicating code after I test the CCP with IOMMU.

I think you didn't get it.
It should not be a vdev.
We want to switch the driver to a true PCI device, and remove all the code 
copied from the PCI bus driver.

We will implement CCP as true PCI device. 

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