- Why I did it
PDDF utils were python2 compliant and they needed to be migrated to Python3 (as per Bullseye)
PDDF common platform APIs file name changed as the name was already in use
Indentation issues
Dead/redundant code needed to be removed
- How I did it
Made files Python3 compliant
Indentation corrected
Redundant code removed
- How to verify it
AS7326 Accton platform uses PDDF. PDDF utils were run on this platform to verify.
- Make PDDF code compliant with both Python 2 and Python 3
- Align code with PEP8 standards using autopep8
- Build and install both Python 2 and Python 3 PDDF packages
This change introduces PDDF which is described here: https://github.com/Azure/SONiC/pull/536
Most of the platform bring up effort goes in developing the platform device drivers, SONiC platform APIs and validating them. Typically each platform vendor writes their own drivers and platform APIs which is very tailor made to that platform. This involves writing code, building, installing it on the target platform devices and testing. Many of the details of the platform are hard coded into these drivers, from the HW spec. They go through this cycle repetitively till everything works fine, and is validated before upstreaming the code.
PDDF aims to make this platform driver and platform APIs development process much simpler by providing a data driven development framework. This is enabled by:
JSON descriptor files for platform data
Generic data-driven drivers for various devices
Generic SONiC platform APIs
Vendor specific extensions for customisation and extensibility
Signed-off-by: Fuzail Khan <fuzail.khan@broadcom.com>
