1. NXP DPAA2 CMDIF Driver

The DPAA2 CMDIF is an implementation of the rawdev API, that provides communication between the GPP and AIOP (Firmware). This is achieved via using the DPCI devices exposed by MC for GPP <–> AIOP interaction.

More information can be found at NXP Official Website.

1.1. Features

The DPAA2 CMDIF implements following features in the rawdev API;

  • Getting the object ID of the device (DPCI) using attributes
  • I/O to and from the AIOP device using DPCI

1.2. Supported DPAA2 SoCs

  • LS2084A/LS2044A
  • LS2088A/LS2048A
  • LS1088A/LS1048A

1.3. Prerequisites

There are three main pre-requisities for executing DPAA2 CMDIF on a DPAA2 compatible board:

  1. ARM 64 Tool Chain

    For example, the *aarch64* Linaro Toolchain.

  2. Linux Kernel

    It can be obtained from NXP’s Github hosting.

  3. Rootfile system

    Any aarch64 supporting filesystem can be used. For example, Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained from here.

As an alternative method, DPAA2 CMDIF can also be executed using images provided as part of SDK from NXP. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary to bring up a DPAA2 board.

The following dependencies are not part of DPDK and must be installed separately:

  • NXP Linux SDK

    NXP Linux software development kit (SDK) includes support for family of QorIQ® ARM-Architecture-based system on chip (SoC) processors and corresponding boards.

    It includes the Linux board support packages (BSPs) for NXP SoCs, a fully operational tool chain, kernel and board specific modules.

    SDK and related information can be obtained from: NXP QorIQ SDK.

  • DPDK Extra Scripts

    DPAA2 based resources can be configured easily with the help of ready scripts as provided in the DPDK Extra repository.

    DPDK Extras Scripts.

Currently supported by DPDK:

  • NXP SDK 2.0+.
  • MC Firmware version 10.0.0 and higher.
  • Supported architectures: arm64 LE.
  • Follow the DPDK Getting Started Guide for Linux to setup the basic DPDK environment.

Note

Some part of fslmc bus code (mc flib - object library) routines are dual licensed (BSD & GPLv2).

1.4. Pre-Installation Configuration

1.4.1. Config File Options

The following options can be modified in the config file.

  • CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_DPAA2_CMDIF_RAWDEV (default y)

    Toggle compilation of the lrte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif driver.

1.5. Enabling logs

For enabling logs, use the following EAL parameter:

./your_cmdif_application <EAL args> --log-level=pmd.raw.dpaa2.cmdif,<level>

Using pmd.raw.dpaa2.cmdif as log matching criteria, all Event PMD logs can be enabled which are lower than logging level.

1.5.1. Driver Compilation

To compile the DPAA2 CMDIF PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the following make command:

cd <DPDK-source-directory>
make config T=arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc install

1.6. Initialization

The DPAA2 CMDIF is exposed as a vdev device which consists of dpci devices. On EAL initialization, dpci devices will be probed and then vdev device can be created from the application code by

  • Invoking rte_vdev_init("dpaa2_dpci") from the application
  • Using --vdev="dpaa2_dpci" in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally

Example:

./your_cmdif_application <EAL args> --vdev="dpaa2_dpci"

1.6.1. Platform Requirement

DPAA2 drivers for DPDK can only work on NXP SoCs as listed in the Supported DPAA2 SoCs.