Re: [SR-IOV driver example 0/3] introduction

[Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:14:48AM +0800, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Yu Zhao wrote:
> > SR-IOV drivers of Intel 82576 NIC are available. There are two parts
> > of the drivers: Physical Function driver and Virtual Function driver.
> > The PF driver is based on the IGB driver and is used to control PF to
> > allocate hardware specific resources and interface with the SR-IOV core.
> > The VF driver is a new NIC driver that is same as the traditional PCI
> > device driver. It works in both the host and the guest (Xen and KVM)
> > environment.
> > 
> > These two drivers are testing versions and they are *only* intended to
> > show how to use SR-IOV API.
> > 
> > Intel 82576 NIC specification can be found at:
> > http://download.intel.com/design/network/datashts/82576_Datasheet_v2p1.pdf
> > 
> > [SR-IOV driver example 1/3] PF driver: allocate hardware specific resource
> > [SR-IOV driver example 2/3] PF driver: integrate with SR-IOV core
> > [SR-IOV driver example 3/3] VF driver tar ball
> 
> Please copy netdev@vger.kernel.org on all network-related patches.  This 
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Will do.

Thanks,
Yu