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From: Ravi Kerur <rkerur@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:13:49 -0700
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 3:08 PM
> > To: Ravi Kerur
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Lu, Wenzhuo
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets
> >
> > 2015-09-24 15:13, Ravi Kerur:
> > > M. Jay(Jayakumar, Muthurajan<muthurajan.jayakumar@intel.com>) and I
> > > discussed and decided to include support for I217/I218 chipsets
> > [...]
> > >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_api.c              |  1 +
> > >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h               |  1 +
> > >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_ich8lan.c          | 30
> +++++++-----------------
> > >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_osdep.h            | 24
> +++++++++++++++----
> >
> > You are modifying the base driver which is only allowed by Intel. But
> there can
> > be exceptions. Wenzhuo, is it an exception?
> I'm afraid it's not an exception.  We plan to update e1000 base code
> recently. Hope it will help.
> Thanks.
>

Ok thanks was not aware of it. Can you let me know what version of
e1000/e1000e you plan to update just to make sure it has support for these.

Thanks,
Ravi