From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBEC4B79 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:07:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id o80so22793840wme.1 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 02:07:19 -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:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pSncX0xndIAWhMnvNM2xFzmTC8hxMcYZF18QINDvEZY=; b=oVWurGilb9AaAW1mu/uvWsVSkCl/vfVnMYWC5aqeT481YE6JL8vkva94t6KgMCkwHP lHBC/tq/6u4pz7a+VsA80RZctUk2opsDN38K+gID4TdeHMr4MqFYxh6ioybjHkIu+abf NXDs9SXHuNxx1VeXCzXETOWgI36Pv/7qjRqKRZl2M4Eo3BdgFXHy4qaxjTu+tcrvm8H6 QUFwd/ottnGkQN7Xk2/t1Y5F7nNU0BHCkRGbCjjrr8V3YbN010n7vAmm6/eIjW0nw9in brHBDXHVK4xZu6mXyiq8rL4tb9RsKcQWK6p4Y1G273BTMOi47GWY2vhJqenRrxagpoLf KvdQ== 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:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pSncX0xndIAWhMnvNM2xFzmTC8hxMcYZF18QINDvEZY=; b=Z5/f7zA2pdLj8+y/a9WtJhBwdHbpmghG8sIgaDT/UPofW6YbJKKcmd7d8zMFC9rS3f aONGprsA1/ldYJm81a15euJzh/3I8VSr/iKFy8Qa7A32uSmrJWlGyCy+cPUEmDjhYEjP C9HVgwCwEXW9emfoSsewraJGnZpje1ZJWsDOQZhTDyo3ea5yt4PNsLzEyZfSvu3mVNF0 j46c9bTm8VNnrHQ/ybSZLce+NH74jX5lFATaoCXPkO/ssVu+zGV+lKyliXzZQKQUBNNA ng0ojueab5boNNSy2WONvKIHppHeZ/Xo1vBSEOKLF8oO0gBnt8g9pwXY/JBJFZjwAHWk 1eGw== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwMihppvzbVzt6L78b/iVqoVuhrOt9aHg1jVPVQjtalZcOd1cvX+MWPoutSZ3fhDsNWG X-Received: by 10.194.126.72 with SMTP id mw8mr7341580wjb.193.1472288838856; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 02:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o5sm2886204wmg.16.2016.08.27.02.07.17 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 27 Aug 2016 02:07:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Finn Christensen Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 11:07:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1508379.3KBpzu8YCG@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20160826134401.19337-1-fc@napatech.com> <4874006.xIzEWfahEa@xps13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ntnic: add PMD driver 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: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:07:19 -0000 2016-08-26 16:32, Finn Christensen: > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] > > It would help a lot to describe what is the Napatech NIC Driver Suite, and > > why it is a virtual driver. > > I will elaborate on the description to make it more clear and send an update > patch. However, the driver is a virtual driver because we already bypasses > the kernel stack in our NIC driver and does that in an effective manner. Is there some plan to upstream your driver in Linux? We need to think about the limitations we could have when implementing a PCI driver as a virtual driver. Any thoughts? [...] > > Where can we download the Driver Suite? > > When the Napatech NIC is released, the driver suite will then be available for download. > If you need something sooner, we will need to make special arrangements. We cannot accept a driver until we can freely compile it. What is the expected release date?