Hi. Actually, the support for 82546EB Copper NIC is already there. All it takes to make it work is one line in rte_pci_dev_ids.h:
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82546EB_COPPER) Not much of a patch, I guess :) On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>wrote: > Hello, > > 19/11/2013 23:44, Ognjen Joldzic : > > Recently I came across a 82546EB Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet (Copper) NIC > > and tried to include it in our current DPDK setup. However, the card > > doesn't seem to be supported (I was unable to bind the igb_uio driver). > > There was a post in mailing list earlier this year stating that this > > particular NIC is not supported as of r1.2.3. > > Is the situation any different with the 1.5.0 release (or are there any > > plans to support this model)? > > The page http://dpdk.org/doc/nics says that 8254x should be supported. > But looking in details: > % grep 'RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL.*8254' > lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h > RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82540EM) > RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER) > RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL_EM(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_FIBER) > > It means that only 82540 and 82545 are supported. > I don't know if there is a big difference with 82546 controller > and I'm not aware of any plan to support it. > So feel free to try and patch it. > > -- > Thomas >
