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SubjectRe: [net-next PATCH v2 9/9] octeontx2-pf: Add representors for sdp MAC
Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 08:09:03AM CEST, sgoutham@marvell.com wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:35 PM
>> To: Geethasowjanya Akula <gakula@marvell.com>
>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; kuba@kernel.org;
>> davem@davemloft.net; pabeni@redhat.com; edumazet@google.com; Sunil
>> Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>; Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
>> <sbhatta@marvell.com>; Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@marvell.com>
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [net-next PATCH v2 9/9] octeontx2-pf: Add
>> representors for sdp MAC
>>
>> Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 11:54:01AM CEST, gakula@marvell.com wrote:
>> >Current silicons support 2 types of MACs, SDP and
>>
>> What's SDP? Care to elaborate a bit here?
>>
>>
>> >RPM MAC. This patch adds representors for SDP MAC interfaces.
>> >
>
>Hardware supports different types of MACs eg RPM, SDP, LBK.
>LBK is for internal Tx->Rx HW loopback path. RPM and SDP
>MACs support ingress/egress pkt IO on interfaces with different
>set of capabilities like interface modes. At the time of netdev driver
>registration PF will seek MAC related information from Admin function driver
>'drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af' and sets up ingress/egress
>queues etc such that pkt IO on the channels of these different MACs is possible.

Add this to the patch desctiption please.


>
>Thanks,
>Sunil.

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