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

Jeff Garzik
2008-11-26T20:15:17Z

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

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