[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mlx5: add ConnectX-7 and Bluefield-3 device IDs

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 11/1/2020 9:08 AM, Raslan Darawsheh wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:26 PM
>> To: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
>> <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Shy Shyman <shys at nvidia.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mlx5: add ConnectX-7 and Bluefield-3
>> device IDs
>>
>> On 10/26/2020 11:41 AM, Raslan Darawsheh wrote:
>>> This adds the ConnectX-7 and Bluefield-3 device ids to the list of
>>> supported Mellanox devices that run the MLX5 PMDs.
>>> The devices is still in development stage.
>>>
>>
>> I assume you don't want to add these new device support to the
>> documentation or
>> to the web page, but what do you think adding it to the driver
>> documentation
>> with this device under development note, or experimental support etc?
>>
> It's about that we haven't tried the PMD with these NIC's yet, so announcing that it has support for them
> without knowing that we don't really have any issues (even 0 level issue) I don't think its OK to add such documentation.
> 
> I think once we'll have the proper testing done for them, we can add them to all necessary documentations
> 

OK