Re: [dpdk-dev] Q on Support for I217 and I218 Intel chipsets.

["O'driscoll, Tim" <tim.o'driscoll@intel.com>]

> On Thursday, January 15, 2015  at 8:34 PM, Ravi Kerur <rkerur@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 2015-01-09 04:41, Ravi Kerur:
> > > Thomas,
> > >
> > > Please let me know how I can move forward on this. If i confine changes
> > in
> > > e1000/ directory to e1000_osdep.h file only and the rest in PMD will that
> > > work? The reason I ask is because of following comment  in README file.
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Few changes to the original FreeBSD sources were made to:
> > > - Adopt it for PMD usage mode:
> > >         e1000_osdep.c
> > >         e1000_osdep.h
> > > ...
> >
> > This is an Intel driver so you should ask to the responsible of this code
> > at Intel.
> > The problem is that there is not really an identified responsible for this
> > driver.
> >
> > The rule is to not change the base driver, even osdep files.
> > But it would be better to have an exception here.
> >
> >
> > PS: please avoid top-posting.
> >
> 
> <rk> Please let me know who is the contact person from Intel so I can add
> him/her to "To" list when I send the patch or Should I contact Jim St Leger
> and ask him about this?

We're looking into this, but don't have a definitive answer yet. Somebody from Intel will reply as soon as we've confirmed whether the change you proposed is OK or not.


Tim