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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntnic: add PMD driver
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:44:07 +0200
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Welcome,

2016-08-26 13:44, Finn Christensen:
> +NTNIC Poll Mode Driver
> +======================
> +
> +The NTNIC poll mode driver library (**librte_pmd_ntnic**) implements support
> +for **Napatech NIC** 40/50 Gbps adapters.
> +This PMD is implemented as a pure software virtual device and must be created
> +by using the EAL --vdev=parameter (parameters are explained i detail later).
> +It runs on top of the Napatech NIC Driver Suite that must be installed and
> +started.

It would help a lot to describe what is the Napatech NIC Driver Suite,
and why it is a virtual driver.
What is the hardware it runs on? Where can we get it?
Where can we download the Driver Suite?

> +Supported Features
> +------------------
> +
> +- RSS (Receive Side Scaling)
> +- TSS (Transmit Side Scaling)
> +- Promiscuous mode
> +- Basic statistics
> +
> +
> +Prerequisites
> +-------------
> +
> +Requires Napatech NIC and Napatech NIC Driver Suite installed and
> +running in version **0.3.0** or higher.
> +This includes external libraries and kernel driver for resources
> +allocations and initialization.

So the Driver Suite is just a library to help implementing the driver
for the Napatech NIC?

Thanks for explaining your solution