On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:05 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:44 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: > > As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will > > support the API. > > Do you think you'll have those changes ready for 2.6.29? Would merging > core SR-IOV support now make that any more likely? > > > > I'm not sure about readiness for 2.6.29. I can tell you that as soon as I > get a Xen Dom0 kernel with these API's included it will take me less than a > day to convert over to them from the current drivers I have that are using > an older API from back in August. The drivers are mostly functional, they > have a few bugs. I could do some quick regression testing to make sure > that the API changes haven't broken anything and then some bug fixes to get > everything ready for release. Maybe two or three weeks for the major bugs. > I'll be out over the Christmas holidays so that puts us into middle or > late January if I got the Xen Dom0 kernel today. That seems unlikely but > it gives you an idea of the time required. Hm, that's not the answer I was hoping for. :) (Was looking for, "Yeah we just need this bits queued and we'll send an update for e1000 right away." :) I really don't want the SR-IOV stuff to sit out another merge cycle though... Arg. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
