From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] plumbing say test-pmd for non-Intel NICs(drivers)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:23:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A60F4B.4090908@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMXF-eUzCp0hJN62RezdJv==Fs9jWf4ywT5CXKgjLQhXip9e0A@mail.gmail.com>
On 29.05.2013 10:27, somnath kotur wrote:
> Hi,
> Pls pardon me if this has been asked/addressed in another thread. Just
> wanted to know what i need to do if i wanted to plumb my non-Intel 10G NIC
> into the DPDK , For instance just into the test-pmd framework would also be
> fine ?
> Any pointers /tips welcome?
Hi,
In short, you'd have to write/port a driver for the NIC. I very
recently did this for the purpose of testing DPDK in a virtual machine
(*). That said, I got off easy since almost all of the driver code
already existed, and I only had to make minor edits and redo the parts
involved with DMA descriptors.
If you have an understanding of how NIC drivers work, it will take a
varying amount of effort depending on the amount of driver you can
copypaste from other sources. However, there's no way around having to
know how drivers work.
- antti
*) https://github.com/anttikantee/dpdk-wm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-29 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-29 8:27 somnath kotur
2013-05-29 14:23 ` Antti Kantee [this message]
2013-05-29 15:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-29 15:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
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