[PATCH V3 0/7] cxl: Add support for Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Thu Mar 30 15:44:50 AEDT 2017


On 29/03/17 02:14, Christophe Lombard wrote:
> This series adds support for a cxl card which supports the Coherent
> Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0.
>
> It requires IBM Power9 system and the Power Service Layer, version 9.
> The PSL provides the address translation and system memory cache for
> CAIA compliant Accelerators.
> the PSL attaches to the IBM Processor chip through the PCIe link using
> the PSL-specific “CAPI Protocol” Transaction Layer Packets.
> The PSL and CAPP communicate using PowerBus packets.
> When using a PCIe link the PCIe Host Bridge (PHB) decodes the CAPI
> Protocol Packets from the PSL and forwards them as PowerBus data
> packets. The PSL also has an optional DMA feature which allows the AFU
> to send native PCIe reads and writes to the Processor.

Today Mikey reminded me that Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt still exists 
- we probably ought to update it.

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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