On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:59:33AM +0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:03:03PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: > > SR-IOV drivers of Intel 82576 NIC are available. There are two parts > > of the drivers: Physical Function driver and Virtual Function driver. > > The PF driver is based on the IGB driver and is used to control PF to > > allocate hardware specific resources and interface with the SR-IOV core. > > The VF driver is a new NIC driver that is same as the traditional PCI > > device driver. It works in both the host and the guest (Xen and KVM) > > environment. > > > > These two drivers are testing versions and they are *only* intended to > > show how to use SR-IOV API. > > That's funny, as some distros are already shipping this driver. You > might want to tell them that this is an "example only" driver and not to > be used "for real"... :( Maybe they are shipping another version, not this one. This one is really a experimental patch, it's just created a week before... _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
