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

Lu, Wenzhuo wenzhuo.lu at intel.com
Mon Sep 28 03:11:30 CEST 2015


Hi Ravi,

From: Ravi Kerur [mailto:rkerur at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 5:14 AM
To: Lu, Wenzhuo
Cc: Thomas Monjalon; dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] Add support for Intel chipsets



On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com<mailto:wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com<mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 3:08 PM
> To: Ravi Kerur
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org<mailto: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<mailto: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.

> Ok thanks was not aware of it. Can you let me know what version of e1000/e1000e you plan to update just to make sure it has support for these.
The planned version is R2.2. Hope we can finish it in time☺
>Thanks,
>Ravi



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