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An Ethernet Controller driver in linux is a complex piece of software, with many entrypoints and callbacks, even for a basic Ethernet Controller we can find in Embedded Systems. In this talk, we'll take a tour of what's inside a typical Ethernet driver. We'll start with the base of what every network driver provides, even non-Ethernet ones, a net_device. We will discuss the various required steps to get a basic driver working, ranging from simple initialization, queue setup, DMA mappings, before diving into more advances topics such as the NAPI loop implementation, memory-management through the page-pool API and finally XDP, which is now getting implemented in more and more drivers. We'll continue the tour through the ethernet-specific bits, such as the ethtool operations, and phylink support to interact with a potential Ethernet PHY, and discuss a little bit about the specifics of embedded Ethernet Controllers, where low-level configuration for a PCS or some Serdes lanes might be required. Finally, we'll discuss about testing and debugging tools that can be useful to help you in your driver development, but also in debugging and optimizing existing drivers.
Maxime Chevallier is an Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin, where he has been working on Ethernet Controller drivers and PHY drivers for more than 6 years. He contributed to the Marvell PPv2 driver, and to various PHY, Switch and PCS drivers.
