Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce the removal of legacy virtio support

2020-05-25 Thread Jerin Jacob
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 1:03 PM Maxime Coquelin wrote: > > Hi Jerrin, Hi Maxime, > > I think what was agreed wasn't to remove Legacy Virtio support, > but instead remove support for probing legacy Virtio devices when they > are not bound to any Kernel drivers. > > It should still be possible to

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce the removal of legacy virtio support

2020-05-25 Thread Maxime Coquelin
Hi Jerrin, I think what was agreed wasn't to remove Legacy Virtio support, but instead remove support for probing legacy Virtio devices when they are not bound to any Kernel drivers. It should still be possible to use these legacy Virtio devices when bound to VFIO or UIO. Regards, Maximle On 5/

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce the removal of legacy virtio support

2020-05-24 Thread jerinj
From: Jerin Jacob The legacy virtio feature is not architecture agnostics. It relies on x86 IO port scheme support for its working. The legacy virtio is only the consumer of RTE_KDRV_NONE in DPDK PCI subsystem. Legacy virtio removal will also optimize DPDK PCI enumeration management as it does n