05/02/2025 15:37, Renyong Wan: > On 2025/2/5 19:44, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 28/01/2025 15:46, Renyong Wan: > >> XSC PMD is designed to support both VFIO and private kernel drivers. > > What's the benefit of private kernel drivers? > > Why are they private? > > Hello Thomas, > > Thanks for your review. > > It can support the bifurcation model without unbinding the kernel > driver, by utilizing our private kernel driver in conjunction with > rdma-core. Currently, our kernel driver is not open-source, so it is > considered a private kernel driver. This patch series only supports the > VFIO driver. Our kernel driver is currently in the process of being > open-sourced on kernel.org, and once it is available there, we also plan > to submit the code that supports our kernel driver to DPDK.
OK that's interesting, thank you. I think it would be the first DPDK driver to support both VFIO or bifurcated model. How will we choose which one to use? With devargs?
