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Marvell Begins Working On Linux Support For Their Next-Gen Octeon "CN20K" DPU


For Marvell's line of Octeon line of data processing units (DPUs) and baseband processors, it looks like a new DPU is on the way with the CN20K silicon seeing work on enabling Linux support.

A Marvell engineer on Sunday sent out the latest patches for enabling the CN20K silicon within the Linux networking subsystem. Along with other changes the mailbox communication mechanism between RVU (Resource virtualization Unit) SRIOV PFs/VFs with Admin function (AF) has also gone through some changes. - Ability for VFs to communicate with RVU AF instead of going through parent SRIOV PF.

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