From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
"Zhang, Xiaohua" <Xiaohua.Zhang@windriver.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] usertools/dpdk-devbind.py: add support for wind river avp device
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:06:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da27a255-dd4c-ad37-239d-9c636949b322@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7669d512-828b-afaf-3f44-c14da84b0ec2@intel.com>
On 2/13/2018 10:06 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 13-Feb-18 1:43 AM, Zhang, Xiaohua wrote:
>> Hi Anatoly,
>> AVP is a virtual NIC type, so you are right.
>>
>> When using the AVP device, you will see the following information from lspci (example).
>> Slot: 0000:00:05.0
>> Class: Unclassified device [00ff]
>> Vendor: Red Hat, Inc [1af4]
>> Device: Virtio memory balloon [1002]
>> SVendor: Red Hat, Inc [1af4]
>> SDevice: Device [0005]
>> PhySlot: 5
>> Driver: virtio-pci
>>
>> It is a little different with the standard "Ethernet" controller, such as "Class: Ethernet controller [0200]".
>> Theoretically, the AVP is a memory based device. That's the reason, I put it as separate catalog.
>>
>
> OK, fair enough. Is there any way we can make this category
> not-WindRiver AVP specific? Are there other similar devices out there
> that could potentially fit into this category?
Can we call it "memory_devices" instead of "avp_devices" ?
>
>>
>> BR.
>> Xiaohua Zhang
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> Is there any particular reason why this device appears in its own category, rather than being added to one of the existing device classes?
>> I'm not familiar with AVP but it looks like it's a NIC, so shouldn't it be in network_devices category?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Anatoly
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-13 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-11 9:52 Xiaohua Zhang
2018-02-12 10:13 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-02-13 1:43 ` Zhang, Xiaohua
2018-02-13 10:06 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-02-13 11:06 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-02-14 0:48 ` Zhang, Xiaohua
2018-02-14 9:57 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-02-14 10:32 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-02-14 23:17 ` Zhang, Xiaohua
2018-02-15 9:28 ` Burakov, Anatoly
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