From: Lijun Pan <Lijun.Pan@freescale.com>
To: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <arnd@arndb.de>,
<devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>, <itai.katz@freescale.com>,
<german.rivera@freescale.com>, <leoli@freescale.com>,
<scottwood@freescale.com>, <agraf@suse.de>,
<bhamciu1@freescale.com>, <R89243@freescale.com>,
<bhupesh.sharma@freescale.com>, <nir.erez@freescale.com>,
<richard.schmitt@freescale.com>, <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Lijun Pan <Lijun.Pan@freescale.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 7/8] staging: fsl-mc: update TODO and README for restool driver
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:32:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446233530-8918-8-git-send-email-Lijun.Pan@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446233530-8918-1-git-send-email-Lijun.Pan@freescale.com>
Add more introduction of restool driver and state why
restool driver is needed in helping moving fsl-mc bus
out of staging tree.
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <Lijun.Pan@freescale.com>
---
drivers/staging/fsl-mc/README.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/README.txt b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/README.txt
index 8214102..e9ec507 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/README.txt
+++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/README.txt
@@ -130,7 +130,16 @@ the objects involved in creating a network interfaces.
via a config file passed to the MC when firmware starts
it. There is also a Linux user space tool called "restool"
that can be used to create/destroy containers and objects
- dynamically.
+ dynamically. The kernel side restool driver communicates with
+ user space restool via ioctl. Restool relies on allocator driver
+ to allocate dpmcp resources, enumerates fsl-mc bus to find root dprc
+ objects of interest. When the user space restool program sends a request
+ to restool driver to create a dp* objects in MC firmware, an interrupt
+ will be triggered by MC firmware and the dprc driver's interrupt handler
+ shall process the interrupt (synchronizing the objects in MC firmware and
+ objects in Linux kernel). Though small, restool driver helps verify all
+ the functionality of fsl-mc bus, dprc driver, allocator driver,
+ and MC flib API.
-DPAA2 Objects for an Ethernet Network Interface
diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO
index 5065821..4892eb6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO
@@ -5,10 +5,24 @@
fsl-mc bus out of staging.
* Decide if multiple root fsl-mc buses will be supported per Linux instance,
- and if so add support for this.
+ and if so add support for this. No matter fsl-mc bus support multiple root
+ dprc or not, restool driver is designed to support multiple root if fsl-mc
+ bus is ready some day later. If there is only one root dprc, restool driver
+ works fine.
+
+* Add at least one driver utilizing fsl-mc bus. Restool driver is a very
+ small and simple driver, which interacts with fsl-mc bus, dprc driver,
+ allocator driver. Restool relies on allocator driver to allocate
+ dpmcp resources, enumerates fsl-mc bus to find root dprc objects of interest.
+ When the user space restool program sends a request to restool driver to
+ create a dp* objects in MC firmware, an interrupt will be triggered by
+ MC firmware and the dprc driver's interrupt handler shall process the
+ interrupt. Though small, restool driver helps verify all the functionality
+ of fsl-mc bus, dprc driver, allocator driver, and MC flib API. Restool
+ driver helps in moving fsl-mc bus out of staging branch.
* Add at least one device driver for a DPAA2 object (child device of the
- fsl-mc bus). Most likely candidate for this is adding DPAA2 Ethernet
+ fsl-mc bus). Most likely candidate for this is adding DPAA2 Ethernet
driver support, which depends on drivers for several objects: DPNI,
DPIO, DPMAC. Other pre-requisites include:
--
2.3.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-30 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-30 19:32 [PATCH v2 0/8] Management Complex " Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] staging: fsl-mc: static inline function to differentiate root dprc Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] staging: fsl-mc: add sysfs rescan attribute in TODO Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] staging: fsl-mc: dprc device's sysfs rescan documentation Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] staging: fsl-mc: root dprc rescan attribute to sync kernel with MC Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] staging: fsl-mc: fsl-mc bus's sysfs rescan documentation Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] staging: fsl-mc: bus rescan attribute to sync kernel with MC Lijun Pan
2015-10-30 19:32 ` Lijun Pan [this message]
2015-10-30 19:32 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] staging: fsl-mc: Management Complex restool driver Lijun Pan
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