From: Edward Cree <ec...@solarflare.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:53:54 +0100
> EF100 is a new NIC architecture under development at Xilinx, based > partly on existing Solarflare technology. As many of the hardware > interfaces resemble EF10, support is implemented within the 'sfc' > driver, which previous patch series "commonised" for this purpose. > > In order to maintain bisectability while splitting into patches of a > reasonable size, I had to do a certain amount of back-and-forth with > stubs for things that the common code may try to call, mainly because > we can't do them until we've set up MCDI, but we can't set up MCDI > without probing the event queues, at which point a lot of the common > machinery becomes reachable from event handlers. > Consequently, this first series doesn't get as far as actually sending > and receiving packets. I have a second series ready to follow it > which implements the datapath (and a few other things like ethtool). ... Series applied, thank you.
