Hi Sujith, It was exciting to see open source code coming from Cisco ensuring a DPDK application can run on any platform and with any card....I haven't seen your patch yet. What happened? HK
> Date : Wed, 28 May 2014 08:06> From : dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] > To : dev at dpdk.org > Subject : [dpdk-dev] PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines > for submission > > > Hi all, > > We have been working on development of poll-mode driver for Cisco VIC > Ethernet NIC and integration of it with DPDK. We would like to submit this > poll-mode driver (ENIC PMD) to the DPDK community so that it could be part > of the DPDK tree. > > Could someone please provide the guidelines and steps to do this? As of > now, ENIC PMD is being tested with DPDK 1.6.0r2. Is it alright to submit a > patch for DPDK 1.6.0r2? > > One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO. Hope > this is acceptable. The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this > decision. > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html > > ENIC PMD uses one interrupt per interface and it is used by the NIC for > signalling the driver in case of any error. Since this does not come in > the fast path, it should be acceptable, isn?t it? > > Please give your suggestions and comments. > > Thanks, > -Sujith
