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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO')
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO index d78288b4e721..389436891b93 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/TODO @@ -1,13 +1,31 @@ -* Add README file (with ASCII art) describing relationships between - DPAA2 objects and how combine them to make a NIC, an LS2 switch, etc. - Also, define all acronyms used. - * Decide if multiple root fsl-mc buses will be supported per Linux instance, and if so add support for this. * Add at least one device driver for a DPAA2 object (child device of the - fsl-mc bus). + 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: + + * interrupt support. for meaningful driver support we need + interrupts, and thus need message interrupt support by the bus + driver. + -Note: this has dependencies on generic MSI support work + in process upstream, see [1] and [2]. + + * Management Complex (MC) command serialization. locking mechanisms + are needed by drivers to serialize commands sent to the MC, including + from atomic context. + + * MC firmware uprev. The MC firmware upon which the fsl-mc + bus driver and DPAA2 object drivers are based is continuing + to evolve, so minor updates are needed to keep in sync with binary + interface changes to the MC. + +* Cleanup Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, german.rivera@freescale.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org + +[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/9/93 +[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/7/712 |