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+Marvell device plugin
+=====================
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+This plugins provides native device support for Marvell PP2 network
+device, by use of Marvell Usermode SDK
+(`MUSDK <https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/musdk-marvell>`__).
+Code is developed and tested on
+`MACCHIATObin <http://macchiatobin.net>`__ board.
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+Plugins depends on installed MUSDK and Marvell provided linux
+`kernel <https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/linux-marvell>`__
+with MUSDK provided kernel patches (see ``patches/linux`` in musdk repo
+and relevant documentation. Kernel version used: **4.14.22
+armada-18.09.3** MUSDK version used: **armada-18.09.3** Following kernel
+modules from MUSDK must be loaded for plugin to work: \*
+``musdk_cma.ko`` \* ``mv_pp_uio.ko``
+
+Musdk 18.09.3 compilation steps
+-------------------------------
+
+::
+
+   ./bootstrap
+   ./configure --prefix=/opt/vpp/external/aarch64/ CFLAGS="-Wno-error=unused-result -g -fPIC" --enable-shared=no
+   sed -i -e  's/marvell,mv-pp-uio/generic-uio/' modules/pp2/mv_pp_uio.c
+   sed -i -e  's/O_CREAT/O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR/' src/lib/file_utils.c
+   make
+   sudo make install
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Interface Creation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Interfaces are dynamically created with following CLI:
+
+::
+
+   create interface marvell pp2 name eth0
+   set interface state mv-ppio-0/0 up
+
+Where ``eth0`` is linux interface name and ``mv-ppio-X/Y`` is VPP
+interface name where X is PP2 device ID and Y is PPIO ID Interface needs
+to be assigned to MUSDK in FDT configuration and linux interface state
+must be up.
+
+Interface Deletion
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Interface can be deleted with following CLI:
+
+::
+
+   delete interface marvell pp2 <interface name>
+
+Interface Statistics
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Interface statistics can be displayed with
+``sh hardware-interface mv-ppio0/0`` command.
+
+Interaction with DPDK plugin
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This plugin doesn’t have any dependency on DPDK or DPDK plugin but it
+can work with DPDK plugin enabled or disabled. It is observed that
+performance is better around 30% when DPDK plugin is disabled, as DPDK
+plugin registers own buffer manager, which needs to deal with additional
+metadata in each packet.
+
+DPKD plugin can be disabled by adding following config to the
+startup.conf.
+
+::
+
+   plugins {
+     dpdk_plugin.so { disable }
+   }