On Tuesday 14 February 2017 03:26 AM, Jan Blunck wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.j...@nxp.com> wrote:
On Monday 13 February 2017 05:25 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
EAL PCI layer is planned to be restructured in 17.05 to unlink it from
generic structures like eth_driver, rte_cryptodev_driver, and also move
it into a PCI Bus.
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.j...@nxp.com>
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has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This
change
targets release 17.05.
-* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves
as
- a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus``
will
- provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in
- ``eth_driver``.
Just to highlight, above statement was added by me in 16.11.
As of now I plan to work on removing rte_pci_driver from eth_driver,
rather than removing eth_driver all together (which, probably, was
better idea).
If someone still wishes to work on its complete removal, we can keep
the above. (and probably remove the below).
There is no benefit in keeping eth_driver and removing rte_pci_driver
from it. Technically it isn't even needed today.
I agree with you.
I stopped working on it because I realized that removing it means making
pci_probe call eth_dev_init handlers directly. Or, restructure the whole
of pci probe stack - which, because of pending PCI bus implementation,
was slightly tentative.
Changes are already expected in EAL PCI code for bus movement, probably
this task can be combined with that.
+* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.05 for PCI subsystem. This is to
+ unlink EAL dependency on PCI and to move PCI devices to a PCI specific
+ bus.
+
+* ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from ``eth_driver`` in
17.05.
+ This is to unlink the ethernet driver from PCI dependencies.
+ Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` in planned to be removed from
+ ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.
* In 17.02 ABI changes are planned: the ``rte_eth_dev`` structure will be
extended with new function pointer ``tx_pkt_prepare`` allowing
verification
