Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752814AbYLQTnd (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:43:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751978AbYLQTnD (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:43:03 -0500 Received: from outbound-mail-139.bluehost.com ([67.222.39.29]:33774 "HELO outbound-mail-139.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751951AbYLQTnB (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:43:01 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:X-Identified-User; b=Q4gy/UclDCp86V5ng+pXJZX2n7sqAJoLTRaMb3LWv4muk5N/tnNw7kNN1qu+CQpObxZq/gIMyj99/upAy/3Ppp/4Lc6A0oeoSUjE50pjhSPbEPeyh34cO6heznivTcoA; From: Jesse Barnes To: "Rose, Gregory V" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:42:54 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Greg KH , Jike Song , "Zhao, Yu" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "achiang@hp.com" , "bjorn.helgaas@hp.com" , "grundler@parisc-linux.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "matthew@wil.cx" , "randy.dunlap@oracle.com" , "rdreier@cisco.com" , "horms@verge.net.au" , "yinghai@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" References: <20081121183605.GA7810@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> <200812171051.36645.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F07554B525A02@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F07554B525A02@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812171142.56170.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Identified-User: {642:box128.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.27.49 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/