[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/27] Add i40e PMD support

[Thomas Monjalon]

> The 2nd version of series of patches are to add i40e PMD support.
> It contains the updated basic shared code, and some other enhancements.
> It adds the support of the latest version of firmware.
> * Add new PMD driver of i40e in the folder of librte_pmd_i40e
> * Add some neccessary definitions, changes in rte_mbuf.h and eth_dev
> * Add new configurations for i40e
> * Add or modifiy makefiles to support i40e compilation
> * Add neccessary changes in ixgbe, e1000 and vmxnet3 PMD, as hash flags
>   has been enlarged from 16 bits to 64 bits to support i40e
> * Add neccessary changes in example applications and testpmd to use
>   ETH_RSS_IP to replace all IP hash flags, as i40e introduced more
>   hash flags.
> * Add command in testpmd for port based vlan insertion offload testing
> * Add neccessary changes in eth_dev to support configuring maximum
>   packet length of less than 1518
> * Add two sys files in igb_uio to support enabling/disabling
>   'Extended Tag' and resetting 'Max Read Request Size', as it has
>   big impacts on i40e performance
> * Add neccessary changes in pci to read/write the above two sys files
>   during probing PCI
> 
> Features/enhancements to be implemented later:
> * Set link speed, and physically up/down
> * Double VLAN support, flow director, VMDq and DCB
> * VLAN insertion/stripping, RSS in VF
> 
> Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jing Chen <jing.d.chen at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Heqing Zhu <heqing.zhu at intel.com>
> Tested-by: Waterman Cao <waterman.cao at intel.com>

Applied for version 1.7.0.

Some things could be cleaned up later, especially i40e specific flags in
generic API must be removed. Please work on a patch for next release.

Thanks for the hard work
-- 
Thomas