From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: support for X552/X557-AT 10GBase-T devices Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:40:30 +0100 Message-ID: <2584503.Vl16qpNLEm@xps13> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Aws Ismail Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f44.google.com (mail-wm0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FA995DE for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:41:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so36151325wmw.1 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:41:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-11-13 11:32, Aws Ismail: > I just wanted to confirm whether the 0x15ad X552/X557-AT 10GBase-T > devices are currently "fully" supported by DPDK (master). My understanding is that it is supported: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=2e83c81bad (but you can have a hint in the last letters of the commit id ;) > I have looked at the ixgbe PMD code and I can see 0x15AD being > mentioned in the device list but I am unable to fully use it even with > the testpmd app. So I think you can send a bug report on this list. > I understand that the 0x15ad devices are not yet fully supported in > the mainline kernel (even in 4.3.x) as of yet, but I wonder if the PMD > usually lags behind the mainline driver. There is no rule and really often they are not written by the same developpers.