2017-11-09 18:17:46

by David Daney

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Cavium OCTEON-III network driver.

I need to send v3. With this v2 set, there is a small bug in the RX
initialization that causes failure on little-endian kernels.

David.


On 11/08/2017 04:51 PM, David Daney wrote:
> We are adding the Cavium OCTEON-III network driver. But since
> interacting with the input and output queues is done via special CPU
> local memory, we also need to add support to the MIPS/Octeon
> architecture code. Aren't SoCs nice in this way?
>
> The first six patches add the SoC support needed by the driver, the
> last two add the driver and an entry in MAINTAINERS.
>
> Since these touch several subsystems (mips, staging, netdev), I would
> propose merging via netdev, but defer to the maintainers if they think
> something else would work better.
>
> A separate pull request was recently done by Steven Hill for the
> firmware required by the driver.
>
> Changes from v1:
>
> o Cleanup and use of standard bindings in the device tree bindings
> document.
>
> o Added (hopefully) clarifying comments about several OCTEON
> architectural peculiarities.
>
> o Removed unused testing code from the driver.
>
> o Removed some module parameters that already default to the proper
> values.
>
> o KConfig cleanup, including testing on x86_64, arm64 and mips.
>
> o Fixed breakage to the driver for previous generation of OCTEON SoCs (in
> the staging directory still).
>
> o Verified bisectability of the patch set.
>
> Carlos Munoz (5):
> dt-bindings: Add Cavium Octeon Common Ethernet Interface.
> MIPS: Octeon: Enable LMTDMA/LMTST operations.
> MIPS: Octeon: Add a global resource manager.
> MIPS: Octeon: Add Free Pointer Unit (FPA) support.
> netdev: octeon-ethernet: Add Cavium Octeon III support.
>
> David Daney (3):
> MIPS: Octeon: Automatically provision CVMSEG space.
> staging: octeon: Remove USE_ASYNC_IOBDMA macro.
> MAINTAINERS: Add entry for
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-*
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/net/cavium-bgx.txt | 61 +
> MAINTAINERS | 6 +
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig | 35 +-
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Makefile | 4 +-
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-fpa3.c | 364 ++++
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/resource-mgr.c | 371 ++++
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c | 22 +-
> .../asm/mach-cavium-octeon/kernel-entry-init.h | 20 +-
> arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h | 2 +
> arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/octeon.h | 47 +-
> arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
> arch/mips/kernel/octeon_switch.S | 2 -
> arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c | 29 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/Kconfig | 55 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/Makefile | 6 +
> .../net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-bgx-nexus.c | 698 +++++++
> .../net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-bgx-port.c | 2028 +++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-core.c | 2068 ++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-pki.c | 833 ++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-pko.c | 1719 ++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-sso.c | 309 +++
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3.h | 411 ++++
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h | 6 -
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c | 25 +-
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-tx.c | 85 +-
> 25 files changed, 9065 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cavium-bgx.txt
> create mode 100644 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-fpa3.c
> create mode 100644 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/resource-mgr.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-bgx-nexus.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-bgx-port.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-core.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-pki.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-pko.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3-sso.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon3.h
>


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