From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.cs.hut.fi (mail.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.7]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB16E6931 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 18:33:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.10]) by mail.cs.hut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81EB8308A5A for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 19:33:10 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <519E44C4.9040408@iki.fi> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:33:08 +0200 From: Antti Kantee MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@dpdk.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] announcing i82540 support for DPDK 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: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:33:06 -0000 Hi folks, I found myself last week wanting to do simple testing with DPDK, but did not possess the supported hardware and neither was the supported hardware emulated by any virtual machine I could place my hands on. I ended up hacking enough support for 82540 into DPDK to get simple packetflows going from Linux running in a VM. In case someone has similar needs, I've put the driver up on github. The driver development method was "copypaste + mangle just enough bits to get packets flowing", so it's not advisable to use the driver for anything apart from virtual machine testing. In case there are a lot of similar needs within the community, maybe the driver can even be polished up and integrated into DPDK. https://github.com/anttikantee/dpdk-wm enjoy, antti