On 9/1/2017 3:12 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > NFP PMD has just had support for SRIOV VFs until now. This patch set adds > support for the PF, but just for being used as another DPDK port. No VF > management is added by now. > > NFP is a programmable device and it supports virtual NICs (vNICs) through > firmware implementation. Different firmware applications implement vNICs > for PF devices and VF devices, being number of vNICs dependent on the > firmware and the NFP card available. PF vNIC (virtual) BARs are a subset > of PF PCI device BARs while VF vNIC BARs are same than VF PCI BARs. > > Working with VF vNICs requires a PF driver uploading the firmware, doing > some NFP configuration and creating/destroying VFs. This can be only done > with the kernel NFP PF netdev driver by now. > > Working with PF vNIC requires the PMD doing the NFP configuration and for > accessing the NFP a specific user space interface is created. NFP Service > Processor Userspace (NSPU) interface allows to create specific PCI BAR > windows for accessing different parts of the NFP device, including the > Network Service Processor (NSP) itself. The NSPU interface is implemented > as the base for working with the PF. > > v2: > - fix commits headers > - update nic guide > - add info to release notes > - creating different features files for PF and VF > - fix typo inside nfp_nspu.c > > Alejandro Lucero (18): > net/nfp: add NSP user space interface > net/nfp: add specific PF probe function > net/nfp: add support for new PCI id > net/nfp: add NSP support for commands > net/nfp: add NSP FW upload command > net/nfp: add NSP symbol resolution command > net/nfp: add FW upload logic > net/nfp: add support for vnic config bar mapping > net/nfp: add support for vNIC Rx/Tx bar mappings > net/nfp: support PF devices inside PMD initialization > net/nfp: allocate ethernet device from PF probe function > net/nfp: support PF multiport > net/nfp: add NSP support for HW link configuration > net/nfp: add support for HW port link configuration > net/nfp: read PF port MAC addr using NSP > doc: update NFP with PF support information > doc: update release notes with NFP PF support > doc: create different features files for NFP drivers
Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks. (Except patch 16/18, instead of it applied patch dpdk.org/patch/28425/)
