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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:28:23 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] net: ethtool: add SmartNIC reset support
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 09:01:35AM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
> Ethtool provides support for resetting other internal portions of the
> NIC already.  Seems appropriate to use one of the bits for resetting
> the application processor (AP) for SmartNICs.

Hi Scott

Do you also have a management processor on the NIC?

Or is the Application Processor just the Marketing Departments name
for the management processor?

	   Andrew