Re: [net-next PATCH v2 00/29] Add support for the Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch Host Interface

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:36:04 -0700

> On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 19:45 -0400, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> This patch series adds support for the FM10000 Ethernet switch host
>> interface.  The Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch is a 48-port Ethernet switch
>> supporting both Ethernet ports and PCI Express host interfaces.  The fm10k
>> driver provides support for the host interface portion of the switch, both
>> PF and VF.
>> 
>> As the host interfaces are directly connected to the switch this results in
>> some significant differences versus a standard network driver.  For example
>> there is no PHY or MII on the device.  Since packets are delivered directly
>> from the switch to the host interface these are unnecessary.  Otherwise most
>> of the functionality is very similar to our other network drivers such as
>> ixgbe or igb.  For example we support all the standard network offloads,
>> jumbo frames, SR-IOV (64 VFS), PTP, and some VXLAN and NVGRE offloads.
>> 
>> ---
> 
> Dave, if it makes it easier on you, I can add Alex's series of patches
> to my net-next tree for you to pull.  Just give me an hour or so so that
> I can update my net-next and push his patches up to my tree.

Yeah, could you please do that?

Thanks.