[dpdk-dev] PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission

[Sujith Sankar (ssujith)]

Thank you Anatoly !
I¹ll take a look at it and get back in case of questions.

-Sujith

On 28/05/14 2:22 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:

>Hi Sujith,
>
>> One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO.  Hope
>> this is acceptable.  The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this
>>decision.
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html
>
>You may find this [1] patchset interesting. Basically, it adds native
>support for VFIO to do the binding and unbinding in DPDK. Whether it fits
>your purposes depends on your code, but hopefully you'll be able to
>simplify your code.
>
>[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002568.html
>
>Best regards,
>Anatoly Burakov
>DPDK SW Engineer
>
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