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Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:20:27PM +0000, Joao Pinto wrote:
> For now we are interesting in improving the synopsys QoS driver under
> /nect/ethernet/synopsys. For now the driver structure consists of a single file
> called dwc_eth_qos.c, containing synopsys ethernet qos common ops and platform
> related stuff.
> 
> Our strategy would be:
> 
> a) Implement a platform glue driver (dwc_eth_qos_pltfm.c)
> b) Implement a pci glue driver (dwc_eth_qos_pci.c)
> c) Implement a "core driver" (dwc_eth_qos.c) that would only have Ethernet QoS
> related stuff to be reused by the platform / pci drivers
> d) Add a set of features to the "core driver" that we have available internally

Note that there are actually two drivers in mainline for this hardware:

 drivers/net/ethernet/synopsis/
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/

(See http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2016/02/29/127)

The former only supports 4.x of the hardware.

The later supports 4.x and 3.x and already has a platform glue driver
with support for several platforms, a PCI glue driver, and a core driver
with several features not present in the former (for example: TX/RX
interrupt coalescing, EEE, PTP).

Have you evaluated both drivers?  Why have you decided to work on the
former rather than the latter?

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Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-18 15:30 +0100
  Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> - 2016-11-19 15:00 +0100
    Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Rayagond Kokatanur <rayagond@vayavyalabs.com> - 2016-11-21 06:30 +0100
      Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-21 13:40 +0100
        Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-11-21 14:00 +0100
          Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com> - 2016-11-21 14:30 +0100
            Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-11-21 15:30 +0100
              Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-21 16:10 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-21 17:20 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-22 15:20 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-11-23 12:10 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-23 12:20 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com> - 2016-11-23 12:50 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-23 12:50 +0100
          Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-21 14:50 +0100
            Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-11-21 15:40 +0100
              Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-11-21 16:10 +0100
                Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-21 16:20 +0100
              Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com> - 2016-11-21 16:10 +0100
              Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> - 2016-11-23 09:10 +0100

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