On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:13:49 +0200 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 2014-05-19 16:51, Anatoly Burakov: > > Note that since igb_uio no longer has a PCI ID list, it can now be > > bound to any device, not just those explicitly supported by DPDK. In > > other words, it now behaves similar to PCI stub, VFIO and other generic > > PCI drivers. > > I wonder if we could replace igb_uio by uio_pci_generic? Not as is. I am strarting a new driver for upstream kernel based of pci_generic plus igb_uio. After discussion with Greg KH, doing a new driver seems like best idea. PCI generic driver as is does not do interrupts, and does not claim PCI resources from kernel.
