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

Jeff Kirsher
2008-12-03T03:12:34Z

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> 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 0/3 resend] introduction
> [SR-IOV driver example 1/3 resend] PF driver: hardware specific operations
> [SR-IOV driver example 2/3 resend] PF driver: integrate with SR-IOV core
> [SR-IOV driver example 3/3 resend] VF driver: an independent PCI NIC driver
> --
>

First of all, we (e1000-devel) do support the SR-IOV API.

With that said, NAK on the driver changes. We were not involved in
these changes and are currently working on a version of the drivers
that will make them acceptable for kernel inclusion.

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Cheers,
Jeff