On Saturday 15 October 2016 07:14 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: [...] > > 4) Design considerations that are same as PCI: > - SoC initialization is being done through rte_eal_init(), just after PCI > initialization is done. > - As in case of PCI, probe is done after rte_eal_pci_probe() to link the > devices detected with the drivers registered. > - Device attach/detach functions are available and have been designed on > the lines of PCI framework. > - PMDs register using DRIVER_REGISTER_SOC, very similar to > DRIVER_REGISTER_PCI for PCI devices. > - Linked list of SoC driver and devices exists independent of the other > driver/device list, but inheriting rte_driver/rte_driver, these are > also part of a global list. > [...]
Two points which I missed in the Cover letter: 1. DRIVER_REGISTER_* has been replaced with RTE_PMD_REGISTER_*. 2. This is an experimental series. Verification of this has been done using NXP's PMD (to be published on ML soon) without using default scan/match helpers. - Shreyansh
