From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:51:15 +0300
> This is the second and last set of preparations towards initial > Spectrum-2 support in mlxsw. It mainly re-arranges parts of the code > that need to work with both ASICs, but somewhat differ. > > The first three patches allow different ASICs to register different set > of operations for KVD linear (KVDL) management. In Spectrum-2 there is > no linear memory and instead entries that reside there in Spectrum > (e.g., nexthops) are hashed and inserted to the hash-based KVD memory. > > The fourth patch does a similar restructuring in the low-level multicast > router code. This is necessary because multicast routing is implemented > using regular circuit TCAM (C-TCAM) in Spectrum, whereas Spectrum-2 uses > an algorithmic TCAM (A-TCAM). > > Next six patches prepare the ACL code for the introduction of A-TCAM in > follow-up patch sets. > > Last two patches allow different ASICs to require different firmware > versions and add two resources that need to be queried from firmware by > Spectrum-2 specific code. Series applied, thank you.
