19/09/2017 16:15, Ferruh Yigit: > On 9/19/2017 2:37 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > > On Monday 18 September 2017 08:19 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > >> On 9/9/2017 12:20 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > >>> This layer is used by Bus driver's scan function. Devices are parsed > >>> using OF parser and added to DPAA device list. > >> > >> So this is device tree parser in DPDK. Do we really want this, and as > >> long as DPDK target the bare metal why not get device information from > >> Linux, as done in other cases? > > As of now I don't prefer to modify the internal framework as much as > > possible as this is stable DPDK DPAA driver. > > There is indeed a planned transition from OF to /sys/ parsing, but it is > > still in pipeline. > > > > You see a blocking issue if we go incremental here? > > That would be probably more of replacing this file with another /sys > > parser without much changes to the DPDK glue code. > > OF parser in DPDK looks weird to me, OS will do this for us already. > > If replacing this is in the roadmap, I think this is not showstopper, > added Thomas in case he thinks otherwise.
I agree with Ferruh. I am interested to know if there are cases where a device tree parser would be relevant in DPDK. Cc Jan who already worked on this idea.
