On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Intel 82576 NIC specification can be found at: > http://download.intel.com/design/network/datashts/82576_Datasheet_v2p1.pdf > > [SR-IOV driver example 0/3 resend] introduction > [SR-IOV driver example 1/3 resend] PF driver: hardware specific operations > [SR-IOV driver example 2/3 resend] PF driver: integrate with SR-IOV core > [SR-IOV driver example 3/3 resend] VF driver: an independent PCI NIC driver > -- > First of all, we (e1000-devel) do support the SR-IOV API. With that said, NAK on the driver changes. We were not involved in these changes and are currently working on a version of the drivers that will make them acceptable for kernel inclusion. -- Cheers, Jeff _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
