Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 09/21] IB/hns: Add hca support | From | "Wei Hu (Xavier)" <> | Date | Tue, 3 May 2016 16:39:45 +0800 |
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On 2016/5/3 16:14, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Wei Hu (Xavier) > <xavier.huwei@huawei.com> wrote: >> On 2016/4/30 12:33, Or Gerlitz wrote: > >>> Can you elaborate what design aspects in the driver or anywhere else >>> should impose that limitation? >> 1. Oulijun resolved the problem, and sent PATCH V6 on 2016-4-28. Thanks for >> more comments. > V6 still conditions things on ARM > > >> 2. This driver for Hisilicon RoCE Engine run in ARM SoCs. >> The Hisilicon Network Subsystem is a long term evolution IP which is >> supposed to be used in Hisilicon ICT SoCs. HNS(Hisilicon Network Subsystem) >> has a hardware support of performing RDMA with RoCE engine. > I understand that the HW is targeted just for ARM environments. Is > this the reason > why you want to impose this build limitation or there's something in > the driver design > or code that is not going to work in other environments? yes.
Regards Wei Hu > >> This Kconfig related with this driver as below: >> >> config INFINIBAND_HISILICON_HNS >> tristate "Hisilicon Hns ROCE Driver" >> depends on NET_VENDOR_HISILICON >> depends on ARM64 && HNS && HNS_DSAF && HNS_ENET > this is understood, my question came to better understand the limitations > > . >
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