Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755136AbYLCDMe (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:12:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753562AbYLCDMV (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:12:21 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f18.google.com ([209.85.217.18]:52146 "EHLO mail-gx0-f18.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753127AbYLCDMT (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:12:19 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=IxnRuQwy6BoNr8tCH3S7MAx3RyGAmPYkE97itIoEW+nirbaY25kdnNpykrDsm1I79v iIO86qhiEft06xP1ky1dkr+IdbB72w8mz/L/6c7NOAE56CGU+jYh372C8bvchH6rpCKM OzwbAIceX2z2eWBn3bL7Tuq+5TaGjB8pCgnY4= Message-ID: <9929d2390812021912ua5ddeafo3ae4a5759ffc4c4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:12:18 -0800 From: "Jeff Kirsher" To: "Yu Zhao" Subject: Re: [SR-IOV driver example 0/3 resend] introduction Cc: "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" , "matthew@wil.cx" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, jun.nakajima@intel.com, gregory.v.rose@intel.com In-Reply-To: <20081202092741.GA1859@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081121183605.GA7810@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> <20081202092741.GA1859@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 081301e9eed5a36b Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1549 Lines: 36 On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:27 AM, 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 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. -- Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/