drivers/net: add NXP FEC-UIO driver
From: | Apeksha Gupta <apeksha.gupta-AT-nxp.com> | |
To: | qiangqing.zhang-AT-nxp.com, davem-AT-davemloft.net, kuba-AT-kernel.org | |
Subject: | [PATCH 0/5] drivers/net: add NXP FEC-UIO driver | |
Date: | Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:18:33 +0530 | |
Message-ID: | <20211110054838.27907-1-apeksha.gupta@nxp.com> | |
Cc: | netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-devel-AT-linux.nxdi.nxp.com, LnxRevLi-AT-nxp.com, sachin.saxena-AT-nxp.com, hemant.agrawal-AT-nxp.com, nipun.gupta-AT-nxp.com, Apeksha Gupta <apeksha.gupta-AT-nxp.com> | |
Archive-link: | Article |
This patch series introduce the fec-uio driver, supported for the inbuilt NIC found in the NXP i.MX 8M Mini SoC. Basic hardware initialization is performed in kernel via userspace input/output(UIO) to support FEC ethernet device detection in user space. Userspace PMD uses standard UIO interface to access kernel for PHY initialisation and for mapping the allocated memory of register & buffer descriptor with DPDK which gives access to non-cacheable memory for buffer descriptor. Module fec-uio.ko will get generated. imx8mm-evk-dpdk.dtb is required to support fec-uio driver. Apeksha Gupta (5): dt-bindings: add binding for fec-uio net: fec: fec-uio driver ARM64: defconfig: Add config for fec-uio MAINTAINERS: add new file arm64: dts: imx8mm-evk-dpdk: dts for fec-uio driver .../devicetree/bindings/net/fsl,fec-uio.yaml | 32 ++ MAINTAINERS | 6 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/Makefile | 1 + .../boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-evk-dpdk.dts | 10 + arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Makefile | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_uio.c | 437 ++++++++++++++++++ 8 files changed, 501 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl,fec-uio.yaml create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-evk-dpdk.dts create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_uio.c -- 2.17.1