Commit 2abce12e authored by Ioana Radulescu's avatar Ioana Radulescu Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: fsl-mc: README cleanup

Minor cosmetic changes to the DPAA2 overview documentation file.
Add a reference to the mc-bus driver sysfs documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIoana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLaurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 1df5d23d
Copyright (C) 2015 Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
DPAA2 (Data Path Acceleration Architecture Gen2)
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DPAA2 (Data Path Acceleration Architecture Gen2) Overview
---------------------------------------------------------
This document provides an overview of the Freescale DPAA2 architecture
and how it is integrated into the Linux kernel.
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-Ethernet
-MAC
DPAA2 Overview
--------------
Introduction
------------
DPAA2 is a hardware architecture designed for high-speeed network
packet processing. DPAA2 consists of sophisticated mechanisms for
......@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ network ports to create functional objects/devices such as network
interfaces, an L2 switch, or accelerator instances.
The MC provides memory-mapped I/O command interfaces (MC portals)
which DPAA2 software drivers use to operate on DPAA2 objects:
which DPAA2 software drivers use to operate on DPAA2 objects.
The diagram below shows an overview of the DPAA2 resource management
architecture:
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level.
DPRCs can be defined statically and populated with objects
via a config file passed to the MC when firmware starts
it.
via a config file passed to the MC when firmware starts it.
-DPAA2 Objects for an Ethernet Network Interface
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-IRQs: command completion
-commands: IRQ config, enable, reset
Object Connections
------------------
Object Connections
------------------
Some objects have explicit relationships that must
be configured:
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Ethernet driver configures the DPBPs associated with
the network interface.
Interrupts
----------
Interrupts
----------
All interrupts generated by DPAA2 objects are message
interrupts. At the hardware level message interrupts
generated by devices will normally have 3 components--
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For ARM-based SoC this is the same as the stream ID.
DPAA2 Linux Driver Overview
---------------------------
DPAA2 Linux Drivers Overview
----------------------------
This section provides an overview of the Linux kernel drivers for
DPAA2-- 1) the bus driver and associated "DPAA2 infrastructure"
......@@ -291,7 +290,7 @@ of each driver follows.
+----+--------------+ | +--+---+
| MC-bus driver | | | PHY |
| | | |driver|
| /soc/fsl-mc | | +--+---+
| /bus/fsl-mc | | +--+---+
+-------------------+ | |
| |
================================ HARDWARE =========|=================|======
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a bind of the root DPRC to the DPRC driver
The binding for the MC-bus device-tree node can be consulted here:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt
The sysfs bind/unbind interfaces for the MC-bus can be consulted here:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-fsl-mc*
DPRC driver
-----------
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active in the kernel-- Ethernet, crypto, compression,
etc.
Ethernet
--------
Ethernet driver
---------------
The Ethernet driver is bound to a DPNI and implements the kernel
interfaces needed to connect the DPAA2 network interface to
the network stack.
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