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From: Cyril Cressent <cyril.cressent-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: pci_unbind.py failure
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:04:37 +0000
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:01:06PM +0530, Jyotiswarup Raiturkar wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply. I saw some definitions of e1000_phy_82579 hence
> I thought (hoped) the NIC would be supported. I will try to run my dpdk app
> inside a VM with an emulated e1000 NIC (just to test the code ..).

As a general rule, even if you find references to a NIC in the poll mode
drivers, if it's not listed in lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h
then consider the NIC as not supported.

Good luck with the VM,

Cyril