freebsd-dev/sys/powerpc/conf/NOTES
John Baldwin 6af45170c1 Chelsio T4/T5 VF driver.
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
2016-09-07 18:13:57 +00:00

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# $FreeBSD$
#
# This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes. For
# machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES.
#
# Enable the kernel DTrace hooks which are required to load the DTrace
# kernel modules.
#
options KDTRACE_HOOKS
# DTrace core
# NOTE: introduces CDDL-licensed components into the kernel
#device dtrace
# DTrace modules
#device dtrace_profile
#device dtrace_sdt
#device dtrace_fbt
#device dtrace_systrace
#device dtrace_prototype
#device dtnfscl
#device dtmalloc
# Alternatively include all the DTrace modules
#device dtraceall
#####################################################################
# CPU OPTIONS
# You must specify a machine directive to choose powerpc or powerpc64
#machine powerpc powerpc[64]
#
# You must specify at least one CPU (the one you intend to run on).
cpu AIM
#cpu BOOKE_E500
#cpu BOOKE_PPC440
options FPU_EMU
#options MPC85XX
options POWERMAC #NewWorld Apple PowerMacs
#options PS3 #Sony Playstation 3
options PSIM #GDB PSIM ppc simulator
options MAMBO #IBM Mambo Full System Simulator
options SC_OFWFB # OFW frame buffer
# The cpufreq(4) driver provides support for CPU frequency control
device cpufreq
# Standard busses
device agp
device bm # Apple BMAC (Big Mac Ethernet)
device glc # Sony Playstation 3 Ethernet
device kiic # Apple Keywest I2C Controller
device ofwd # Open Firmware disks
device adb # Apple Desktop Bus
device cuda # VIA-CUDA ADB interface
device ad7417 # PowerMac7,2 temperature sensor
device ds1631 # PowerMac11,2 temperature sensor
device ds1775 # PowerMac7,2 temperature sensor
device fcu # Apple Fan Control Unit
device max6690 # PowerMac7,2 temperature sensor
device pmu # Apple Power Management Unit
device smu # Apple System Management Unit
device snd_ai2s # Apple I2S Audio
device snd_davbus # Apple Davbus Audio
device adm1030 # Apple G4 MDD fan controller
#####################################################################
# Devices we don't want to deal with
nodevice bktr
nodevice cxgbe # XXX: builds on powerpc64 only.
nodevice cxgbev
nodevice fdc
nodevice ppc
nodevice splash
# when splash works enable *_saver
nodevice blank_saver
nodevice daemon_saver
nodevice dragon_saver
nodevice fade_saver
nodevice fire_saver
nodevice green_saver
nodevice logo_saver
nodevice rain_saver
nodevice snake_saver
nodevice star_saver
nodevice warp_saver
nodevice daemon_saver
nodevice star_saver
nodevice snake_saver
# sound
nodevice snd_cmi
# wants gdb_cur
nodevice dcons
nodevice dcons_crom
#####################################################################
# Options we don't want to deal with
nooption PPC_DEBUG
nooption PPC_PROBE_CHIPSET
nooption SC_NO_MODE_CHANGE
nooption UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP