09/06/2026 11:48, [email protected]: > Hi Thomas Monjalon, > > Thank you for your review and for guiding me on the mailing list workflow. > > > Please could you send your new series as a reply of the v1 cover letter? > > It would avoid having a large indent in mail clients. > > Got it. I will configure git send-email with "--in-reply-to" bound to the > v1 cover letter Message-ID for the next version of this patch set. > Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the deep threading. > > > Also I'm still waiting for a reply to my question about the need > > for drivers/common/sxe2/. > > I'm not going to pull any sxe2 patch into main until you explain. > > Regarding the necessity of the "drivers/common/sxe2/" directory, the sxe2 > hardware architecture is designed to support both standard NIC and vDPA > (vHost Data Path Acceleration) functionalities. > > The code currently placed in "drivers/common/sxe2/" contains the foundational > Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), firmware interfaces (AdminQ), and common > register definitions. > > Apart from the "net/sxe2" PMD in this series, we are actively implementing > the > "vdpa/sxe2" driver, which will be submitted in a subsequent patch set. Both > the > "net/sxe2" and "vdpa/sxe2" drivers strictly depend on this shared common HAL > layer to manage the same hardware core. Separating this code into > "drivers/common/" > is essential to prevent massive code duplication between the net and vdpa > subsystems in the near future. > > Please let me know if this clarifies your concern. Once confirmed, I will > send out the updated v15 series as a reply to the v1 cover letter immediately.
OK thank you, it's clear.
