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>From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
>Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 11:52 AM
>To: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszyn...@marvell.com>
>Cc: dev@dpdk.org; chenbo....@intel.com; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
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>step...@networkplumber.org; david.march...@redhat.com
>Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3] bus: add platform bus
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>15/02/2023 12:10, Tomasz Duszynski:
>> Platform bus is a software bus under Linux that manages devices which
>> generally do not have built-in discovery mechanisms. Linux normally
>> learns about platform devices directly from device-tree during boot-up
>> phase.
>>
>> Up to this point, whenever some userspace app needed control over
>> platform device or a range of thereof some sort of driver being a
>> mixture of vdev/rawdev was required.
>>
>> In order to simplify this task, provide an auto-probe experience and
>> separate bus logic from the driver itself, add platform bus support.
>>
>> Currently devices backed up by vfio-platform kernel driver are
>> supported.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszyn...@marvell.com>
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>I would like to better understand how to use it.
>Please could you add some doc in doc/guides/linux_gsg/ ?
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Sure. I'll update linux_drivers.rst as, at least to me, is seems the most
reasonable place.
