Hi Ferruh

This PMD, while running on a host, drives octeontx/octeontx2 over pci bus, where as "OcteonTx and OcteonTx2 net drivers" run on respective Tx/Tx2 SOCs to make use of h/w blocks present on the SOC.

Thanks
Pradeep.
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From: Ferruh Yigit <redacted> 
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 5:22 PM
To: Pradeep Kumar Nalla <redacted>
Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <redacted>; Satananda Burla <sburla@marvell.com>; dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Octeon Tx/Tx2 Endpoint pmd

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On 12/31/2020 7:22 AM, Nalla, Pradeep wrote:

From: "Nalla Pradeep" <redacted>

This patch set contains PMD with minimal set of operations that can 
drive both Octeon Tx and Tx2 in endpoint.

Hi Pradeep,

There is already octeontx and octeontx2 net drivers, what is the difference of the 'endpoint' driver, why it is needed, can you please give more information?

Nalla, Pradeep (15):
   net/octeontx_ep: add build and doc infrastructure
   net/octeontx_ep: add ethdev probe and remove
   net/octeontx_ep: add device init and uninit
   net/octeontx_ep: Added basic device setup.
   net/octeontx_ep: Add dev info get and configure
   net/octeontx_ep: Added rxq setup and release
   net/octeontx_ep: Added tx queue setup and release
   net/octeontx_ep: Setting up iq and oq registers
   net/octeontx_ep: Added dev start and stop
   net/octeontx_ep: Receive data path function added
   net/octeontx_ep: Transmit data path function added
   net/octeontx_ep: INFO PTR mode support added.
   net/octeontx_ep: stats get/reset and link update
   net/octeontx_ep: rx queue interrupt
   net/octeontx_ep: Input output reset.

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