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From: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, -fady@mellanox.com,
	dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com,
	beilei.xing@intel.com, ranjit.menon@intel.com,
	shivanshu.shukla@intel.com, pallavi.kadam@intel.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes
Date: Thu,  9 Sep 2021 13:05:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210909200533.3747-4-pallavi.kadam@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210909200533.3747-1-pallavi.kadam@intel.com>

Add documentation to support iavf PMD on Windows.
Update the release notes for the same.

Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst           | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
index fcea8151bf..27f8b5093e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
@@ -616,3 +616,20 @@ which belongs to the destination VF on the VM.
 .. figure:: img/inter_vm_comms.*
 
    Inter-VM Communication
+
+
+Windows Support
+---------------
+
+*   IAVF PMD currently is supported only inside Windows guest created on Linux host.
+
+*   Physical PCI resources are exposed as virtual functions into Windows VM using SR-IOV pass through feature.
+
+*   Create a Windows guest on Linux host using KVM hypervisor. Refer to the steps mentioned in the above section "Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine monitor"
+
+*   In the Host machine, download and install the kernel Ethernet driver from: `https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download-center/home.html?agr=Y&amp;DwnldID=14687`.
+
+*   For Windows guest, install NetUIO driver in place of existing built-in(inbox) Virtual Function driver.
+
+*   To load NetUIO driver, follow the steps mentioned in `dpdk-kmods repository
+  <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/tree/windows/netuio/README.rst>`_.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
index 675b573834..f5ae66a0ef 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ New Features
   * Added bus-level parsing of the devargs syntax.
   * Kept compatibility with the legacy syntax as parsing fallback.
 
+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
+
+  * Added Intel iavf support on Windows.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
-- 
2.31.1.windows.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-28 23:08 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/iavf: enable on Windows Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] Support iavf PMD " Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/iavf: build " Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/net: fix support of random Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05   ` Pallavi Kadam [this message]
2021-09-09 23:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Support iavf PMD on Windows Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 23:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] net/iavf: build " Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-22 20:58       ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-09 23:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] lib/net: fix support of random Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-22 21:00       ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-30 16:46       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-30 22:36         ` Kadam, Pallavi
2021-09-09 23:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-22 21:01       ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-30 16:49       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-30 19:07       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-22 20:56     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Support iavf PMD on Windows Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-22 20:58     ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-27 21:33     ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-30 20:15     ` Thomas Monjalon

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