On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 16:14 -0400, Roy Pledge wrote: > The Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) is a set of > hardware components on specific QorIQ multicore processors. This > architecture provides the infrastructure to support simplified sharing of > networking interfaces and accelerators by multiple CPU cores and the > accelerators. > > The Queue Manager (QMan) is a hardware queue management block that allows > software and accelerators on the datapath to enqueue and dequeue frames in > order to communicate. > > The Buffer Manager (BMan) is a hardware buffer pool management block that > allows software and accelerators on the datapath to acquire and release > buffers in order to build frames. > > This patch set introduces the QBMan driver code that configures initializes > the QBMan hardware and provides APIs for software to use the frame queues > and buffer pools the blocks provide. These drivers provide the base > fuctionality for software to communicate with the other DPAA accelerators > on Freescale QorIQ processors. > > Changes from v1: > - Cleanup Kconfig options > - Changed base QMan and BMan drivers to only be buit in. > Will add loadable support in future patch
CONFIG_FSL_BMAN is tristate -- is it not expected to work if you select 'm'? > - Replace panic() call with WARN_ON() panic() is still there. > > > - Replaced PowerPC specific IO accessors with platform independent > > versions PowerPC accessors, and other PPC-specfic things like cache flushing and memory barriers, are still there. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
