[dpdk-dev] 82546EB Copper issue

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hello,

19/11/2013 23:44, Ognjen Joldzic :
> Recently I came across a 82546EB Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet (Copper) NIC
> and tried to include it in our current DPDK setup. However, the card
> doesn't seem to be supported (I was unable to bind the igb_uio driver).
> There was a post in mailing list earlier this year stating that this
> particular NIC is not supported as of r1.2.3.
> Is the situation any different with the 1.5.0 release (or are there any
> plans to support this model)?

The page http://dpdk.org/doc/nics says that 8254x should be supported.
But looking in details:
% grep 'RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL.*8254' lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82540EM)
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER)
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_FIBER)

It means that only 82540 and 82545 are supported.
I don't know if there is a big difference with 82546 controller
and I'm not aware of any plan to support it.
So feel free to try and patch it.

-- 
Thomas