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 0657730E for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 16:23:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.10]) by mail.cs.hut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32B66308AEB for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 17:23:08 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <51A60F4B.4090908@iki.fi> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:23:07 +0200 From: Antti Kantee MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@dpdk.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] plumbing say test-pmd for non-Intel NICs(drivers) 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: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:23:02 -0000 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