From 5343f1a6285a0fc6944541e564984fe8645e3e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juanita-Balaraj Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:06:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] pf-bb-config package now used to configure N3000 devices Topic: "N3000 FPGA Overview" The config file for N3000 devices is customized to assign the UL and DL queues to VF0 only. Story: 2009036 Task: 43298 Signed-off-by: Juanita-Balaraj Change-Id: Id84430885a6dd4f78373a9547c0004a6439f0932 --- .../n3000-overview.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/node_management/kubernetes/hardware_acceleration_devices/n3000-overview.rst b/doc/source/node_management/kubernetes/hardware_acceleration_devices/n3000-overview.rst index e67b20f80..7780632a4 100644 --- a/doc/source/node_management/kubernetes/hardware_acceleration_devices/n3000-overview.rst +++ b/doc/source/node_management/kubernetes/hardware_acceleration_devices/n3000-overview.rst @@ -27,6 +27,19 @@ The Intel N3000 |FPGA| also supports |FEC| capabilities that are exposed as a |PCI| device that may be used by a |DPDK| enabled container application to perform accelerated 5G |LDPC| encoding and decoding operations. +The **pf-bb-config** package is used to statically configure the baseband +device within N3000 devices. The baseband *configuration* file for N3000 +devices is taken from `https://github.com/intel/pf-bb-config/blob/v21.6/fpga_5gnr/fpga_5gnr_config_vf.cfg `_, +and customized to assign the UL and DL queues to VF0 only. It is then +applied to the enabled N3000 device, if required. + +.. note:: + The N3000 device configuration using **pf-bb-config** package is + based only on the contents of the **_fpga_5gnr_config_vf.cfg_** file + regardless of the actual number of VFs configured via the + :command:`system host-device-modify` command. + + .. seealso:: :ref:`N3000 FPGA Forward Error Correction `