The cxgbev/cxlv driver supports Virtual Function devices for Chelsio
T4 and T4 adapters. The VF devices share most of their code with the
existing PF4 driver (cxgbe/cxl) and as such the VF device driver
currently depends on the PF4 driver.
Similar to the cxgbe/cxl drivers, the VF driver includes a t4vf/t5vf
PCI device driver that attaches to the VF device. It then creates
child cxgbev/cxlv devices representing ports assigned to the VF.
By default, the PF driver assigns a single port to each VF.
t4vf_hw.c contains VF-specific routines from the shared code used to
fetch VF-specific parameters from the firmware.
t4_vf.c contains the VF-specific PCI device driver and includes its
own attach routine.
VF devices are required to use a different firmware request when
transmitting packets (which in turn requires a different CPL message
to encapsulate messages). This alternate firmware request does not
permit chaining multiple packets in a single message, so each packet
results in a firmware request. In addition, the different CPL message
requires more detailed information when enabling hardware checksums,
so parse_pkt() on VF devices must examine L2 and L3 headers for all
packets (not just TSO packets) for VF devices. Finally, L2 checksums
on non-UDP/non-TCP packets do not work reliably (the firmware trashes
the IPv4 fragment field), so IPv4 checksums for such packets are
calculated in software.
Most of the other changes in the non-VF-specific code are to expose
various variables and functions private to the PF driver so that they
can be used by the VF driver.
Note that a limited subset of cxgbetool functions are supported on VF
devices including register dumps, scheduler classes, and clearing of
statistics. In addition, TOE is not supported on VF devices, only for
the PF interfaces.
Reviewed by: np
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7599
the ABI in 10.0, and have removed support for the old ABI in 11. As such
any of these options to provide compatibility prior to 10 are unneeded.
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
in lockstat.ko. This means that lockstat probes now have typed arguments and
will utilize SDT probe hot-patching support when it arrives.
Reviewed by: gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2993
This will require for AArch64 as we dont have modules yet.
Sponsored by: HEIF5
Sponsored by: ARM Ltd.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1997
never actually ran on these chips (other than using SA1 support in an
emulator to do the early porting to FreeBSD long long ago). The clutter
and complexity of some of this code keeps getting in the way of other
maintenance, so it's time to go.
much all the union of all the kernel configuration files, including all
the CPU types, Marvell SOC types and at91 board types. Any device not
supported (read: does not compile) has been removed, which is a fairly
small set actually. As such, LINT gives us very good coverage without
having to build a zillion kernels.
