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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v7] i40e: Add floating VEB support for
	i40e
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:28:09 +0000
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 04:41:57PM +0800, Zhe Tao wrote:
> This patch-set add the support for floating VEB in i40e.
> All the VFs VSIs can decide whether to connect to the legacy VEB/VEPA or
> the floating VEB. When connect to the floating VEB a new floating VEB is
> created. Now all the VFs need to connect to floating VEB or legacy VEB,
> cannot connect to both of them. The PF and VMDQ,FD VSIs connect to
> the old legacy VEB/VEPA.
> 
> All the VEB/VEPA concepts are not specific for FVL, they are defined in the
> 802.1Qbg spec.
> 
> This floating VEB only take effects on the specific version F/W.
> 
> Zhe Tao (2):
>   Support floating VEB config
>   Add floating VEB support in i40e
>   Add global reset support for i40e
> 
Thanks for these patches, but at this stage in the development process we are
past the feature-freeze deadline, so these patches need to be deferred until the
16.07 release.

Regards,
/Bruce