Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

Jesse Barnes
2008-12-17T19:43:33Z

On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:05 am Rose, Gregory V wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org]
>
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:44 am Rose, Gregory V wrote:
> > As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will
> > support the API.
>
> Do you think you'll have those changes ready for 2.6.29? Would merging
> core SR-IOV support now make that any more likely?
>
>
>
> I'm not sure about readiness for 2.6.29. I can tell you that as soon as I
> get a Xen Dom0 kernel with these API's included it will take me less than a
> day to convert over to them from the current drivers I have that are using
> an older API from back in August. The drivers are mostly functional, they
> have a few bugs. I could do some quick regression testing to make sure
> that the API changes haven't broken anything and then some bug fixes to get
> everything ready for release. Maybe two or three weeks for the major bugs.
> I'll be out over the Christmas holidays so that puts us into middle or
> late January if I got the Xen Dom0 kernel today. That seems unlikely but
> it gives you an idea of the time required.

Hm, that's not the answer I was hoping for. :) (Was looking for, "Yeah we
just need this bits queued and we'll send an update for e1000 right away." :)

I really don't want the SR-IOV stuff to sit out another merge cycle though...
Arg.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center