[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets

[Lu, Wenzhuo]

Hi all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 3:08 PM
> To: Ravi Kerur
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Lu, Wenzhuo
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets
> 
> 2015-09-24 15:13, Ravi Kerur:
> > M. Jay(Jayakumar, Muthurajan<muthurajan.jayakumar at intel.com>) and I
> > discussed and decided to include support for I217/I218 chipsets
> [...]
> >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_api.c              |  1 +
> >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h               |  1 +
> >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_ich8lan.c          | 30 +++++++-----------------
> >  drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_osdep.h            | 24 +++++++++++++++----
> 
> You are modifying the base driver which is only allowed by Intel. But there can
> be exceptions. Wenzhuo, is it an exception?
I'm afraid it's not an exception.  We plan to update e1000 base code recently. Hope it will help.
Thanks.