[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] nfp-uio: new uio driver for netronome nfp6000 card

Alejandro Lucero alejandro.lucero at netronome.com
Wed Oct 21 21:40:36 CEST 2015


On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
wrote:

> 2015-10-21 16:57, Alejandro Lucero:
> > I understand interest for not having another UIO driver does exist. We
> > could maintain an external nfp_uio by now till either we get rid of it or
> > we definitely find out it is really needed. any chance to accept nfp_uio
> by
> > now?
>
> No, there are some work currently to get rid of igb_uio.
> So there are little chances to accept nfp_uio one day.
> Please take the first step of integrating your PMD without link interrupt.
> Later we'll be able to discuss how to mitigate the interrupt issue.
>

Ok. I will create a new patchset version without nfp_uio.

By the way, that work with igb_uio is about the patches to pci_uio_generic?
I thought there was some reticence from the maintainer for adding pci bus
master there.


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