> -----Original Message----- > From: Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:32 PM > To: Zhang, RobinX <robinx.zh...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Guo, Jia <jia....@intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.w...@intel.com>; > m...@ashroe.eu; nhor...@tuxdriver.com; Wu, Jingjing > <jingjing...@intel.com>; Yang, Qiming <qiming.y...@intel.com>; Yang, > SteveX <stevex.y...@intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>; Yigit, > Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Zhang, RobinX <robinx.zh...@intel.com> > > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 11:06 AM > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > Cc: Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com>; Guo, Jia > > <jia....@intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.w...@intel.com>; > > m...@ashroe.eu; nhor...@tuxdriver.com; Wu, Jingjing > > <jingjing...@intel.com>; Yang, Qiming <qiming.y...@intel.com>; Yang, > > SteveX <stevex.y...@intel.com>; Zhang, RobinX > > <robinx.zh...@intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>; Yigit, > > Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > > Subject: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd > > > > The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for > > Intel 700 serial (i40e) NIC family. To reach this, there will be 2 steps: > > > > Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be > > selected by > > devarg: "driver=i40evf". > > This is covered by this patch, which include: > > 1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD > > 2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf > > 3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf > > > > Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at > > DPDK > > 21.11 > > > > Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf > > except bug fix. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zh...@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.x...@intel.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel. Thanks Qi
