The BMan softc must exist when dtsec devices are created, else a NULL
pointer is dereferenced. QMan likely as well. Until now, we have relied on
order within the fdt parsing to attach correctly, but this obviously is not
foolproof. Mark these as BUS_PASS_SUPPORTDEV so they're probed and attached
explicitly before dtsec devices.
Official Linux dts's put the individual portals under a simple-bus, rather
than under a '*-portals' grouping. This adds a hack to permit that, which
gets us closer to using stock device trees for DPAA-based devices.
Linux has a slightly different device tree definition for DPAA than originally
done in the FreeBSD driver. This changes the driver to be mostly compatible
with the Linux device tree definitions. Currently the differences are:
bman-portals: compatible = "fsl,bman-portals" (Linux is "simple-bus")
qman-portals: compatible = "fsl,qman-portals" (Linux is "simple-bus")
fman: compatible = "fsl,fman" (Linux is "simple-bus")
The Linux device tree doesn't specify anything for rgmii in the mdio. This
change still requires the device tree to specify the phy-handle, and doesn't yet
support tbi.
If the device tree doesn't contain a cpu-handle field in any bman-portal or
qman-portal, it will exit without setting up the devinfo, leaving it
uninitialized. This will lead to attempts to free random memory, and ultimately
panic.
Freescale's QorIQ line includes a new ethernet controller, based on their
Datapath Acceleration Architecture (DPAA). This uses a combination of a Frame
manager, Buffer manager, and Queue manager to improve performance across all
interfaces by being able to pass data directly between hardware acceleration
interfaces.
As part of this import, Freescale's Netcomm Software (ncsw) driver is imported.
This was an attempt by Freescale to create an OS-agnostic sub-driver for
managing the hardware, using shims to interface to the OS-specific APIs. This
work was abandoned, and Freescale's primary work is in the Linux driver (dual
BSD/GPL license). Hence, this was imported directly to sys/contrib, rather than
going through the vendor area. Going forward, FreeBSD-specific changes may be
made to the ncsw code, diverging from the upstream in potentially incompatible
ways. An alternative could be to import the Linux driver itself, using the
linuxKPI layer, as that would maintain parity with the vendor-maintained driver.
However, the Linux driver has not been evaluated for reliability yet, and may
have issues with the import, whereas the ncsw-based driver in this commit was
completed by Semihalf 4 years ago, and is very stable.
Other SoC modules based on DPAA, which could be added in the future:
* Security and Encryption engine (SEC4.x, SEC5.x)
* RAID engine
Additional work to be done:
* Implement polling mode
* Test vlan support
* Add support for the Pattern Matching Engine, which can do regular expression
matching on packets.
This driver has been tested on the P5020 QorIQ SoC. Others listed in the
dtsec(4) manual page are expected to work as the same DPAA engine is included in
all.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Alex Perez/Inertial Computing
