From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F21F8D3D for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:02:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by wicll6 with SMTP id ll6so171284523wic.0 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:02:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind_com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=jHH9fGqq0YZEULe0xq40Hf+T6JEtjztPGXFLkqvQpQE=; b=d2gYksgK7PUSH60z8OiR4Tb6lM4Xwt+aHuudNbQ59PoeVqIfi4zbf8Ienm6lEx15YJ snxvkBWUh/x3IIs1XwJ8pUWslLZxWcqKRStGeaeovwPcGs/XzsSv3t48f5FyqYFrXTpd VQdecxjyaPFTRzKMx7tmLEDTYzMYUg7C/j7sPgCBzfS0du6/PVrBRVXQNhU4KL8MN5jq Yk4C+F9iwFOYYOdCDuwuRa14StEVjXrXKDETp2VoWYFQ3fM6fy3dzUDAiFT9ez/O6CNW WzFoz0iSMjxJrMjaVoRGw5rRN/kBWoTCSRuNbujIilAPz8kiLi+S7zThrszWT3/1XnJv gULw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=jHH9fGqq0YZEULe0xq40Hf+T6JEtjztPGXFLkqvQpQE=; b=YOcJfEuyd8yYQGaoFDG1xmC+0Shw45P2lvCOrgofPEo0eQFZ54mmv9bPoIKk2ejQ1/ 02ViDQL4EMADKEjctDFAPwHn0/Y7wvXMNstra9a3PWyXD1EVq74vIMw2Ea0QknYuIjdi haO3524Gtf9aFtjjQz2n6qfcS0hYnuwK/4JGf0q/gN+E9/8nXdgqxq2f0uRIFPa1U/n8 zwvNY0to5rOa0yhIer4/b9l/ZWpaOZHuEVm94FRffOKKcpGmvfTQBzg/xN+gAUZbzEyw xAv5A+Ek0s2zoJMJbe2we2p20qrAT05UUKUEZ7WDz0/7YqBtLb3hqkAAL4fCTL9L6cqr pH9g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkqpfEGT+/C27IObtZggHR6IL+LntVXO3K4sNJa5n5AUq4Libjk0v7Q3kBY0rOH/QvJE5A3 X-Received: by 10.194.57.203 with SMTP id k11mr28032155wjq.98.1445968928966; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ex17sm18588090wid.23.2015.10.27.11.02.08 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:02:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Matej Vido Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:00:59 +0100 Message-ID: <3635307.scPkXzVTSB@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1434702301-4509-1-git-send-email-vido@cesnet.cz> <2385499.t56VK4bXHN@xps13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] doc: add documentation for szedata2 PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:02:09 -0000 2015-10-27 18:33, Matej Vido: > 2015-10-26 16:09 GMT+01:00 Thomas Monjalon : > > SZEDATA2 is not a vdev. Is it possible to probe it as a standard PCI > > device? > > > It would be possible to probe it as a standard PCI device, but as this > szedata2 driver uses libsze2 library it needs to pass some parameters to > the library and we thought that using vdev would be the easiest solution. > Is there a way how to provide parameters to pdev driver? No, but it could be added by working on unifying pdev and vdev. > We also work on a new PMD which will eliminate dependencies on kernel > modules and libsze2, and using this PMD COMBO card will be probed as a > standard PCI device. I think it's better to wait for your new implementation. It would be nice to have it in the release 2.2. Do you think it could be submitted in the coming weeks?