Hi Xiaolong

I will do that in v8.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ye, Xiaolong 
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 6:33 PM
To: Pei, Andy <andy....@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Xu, Rosen <rosen...@intel.com>; Zhang, Tianfei 
<tianfei.zh...@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 05/17] raw/ifpga/base: add device tree support

This patch introduces the dependency on libfdt, so we need to disable ipn3ke 
driver by default in config/common_base, otherwise it would cause a build error.

On 09/26, Andy Pei wrote:
>From: Tianfei zhang <tianfei.zh...@intel.com>
>
>In PAC N3000 card, this is a BMC chip which using MAX10 FPGA to manage 
>the board configuration, like sensors, flash controller, QSFP, powers. 
>And this is a SPI bus connected between A10 FPGA and MAX10, we can 
>access the MAX10 registers over this SPI bus.
>
>In BMC, there are about 19 sensors in MAX10 chip, including the FPGA 
>core temperature, Board temperature, board current, voltage and so on.
>
>We use DTB (Device tree table) to describe it. This DTB file is store 
>in nor flash partition, which will flashed in Factory when the boards 
>delivery to customers. And the same time, the customers can easy to 
>customizate the BMC configuration like change the sensors.
>
>Add device tree support by using libfdt library in Linux distribution.
>The end-user should pre-install the libfdt and libfdt-devel package 
>before use DPDK on PAC N3000 Card.
>
>For Centos 7.x: sudo yum install libfdt libfdt-devel For Ubuntu 18.04: 
>sudo apt install libfdt-dev libfdt1

We'll need to add this info to document.

Thanks,
Xiaolong

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