On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Matthew Cover wrote: > To leverage the SmartNIC capabilities available in Broadcom > NetXtreme-C/E ethernet devices, representor pairs must be configured > via bnxt-ctl Could you give a link to the bnxt-ctl sources. Also give a brief description of what they do. > @@ -0,0 +1,231 @@ > +/* Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E network driver. > + * > + * Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Broadcom Corporation > + * Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broadcom Limited > + * > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > + * the Free Software Foundation. Please remove the license boilerplate and use a SPDX-License-Identifier. > + */ > +#include <linux/netdevice.h> > +#include <linux/pci.h> > +#include "bnxt_hsi.h" > +#include "bnxt_netlink.h" > +#include "bnxt.h" > +#include "bnxt_hwrm.h" > + > +/* attribute policy */ > +static struct nla_policy bnxt_netlink_policy[BNXT_NUM_ATTRS] = { > + [BNXT_ATTR_PID] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, > + [BNXT_ATTR_IF_INDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, > + [BNXT_ATTR_REQUEST] = { .type = NLA_BINARY }, > + [BNXT_ATTR_RESPONSE] = { .type = NLA_BINARY }, Passing binary blobs from user space to firmware will not be accepted. You need well defined and documented individual commands. Andrew --- pw-bot: cr