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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kernel: remove igb_uio
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24/09/2020 07:41, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:54:48 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > As decided in the Technical Board in November 2019,
> > the kernel module igb_uio is moved to the dpdk-kmods repository
> > in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory.
> > 
> > Minutes of Technical Board meeting:
> > https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > ---
> > v2: update few docs (including release notes)
> 
> Good so far:
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> 
> You may want to address all the references to igb_uio in guides/nics
> 
> ark.rst
> axgbe.rst
> bnx2x.rst
> bnxt.rst
> build_and_test.rst
> ena.rst
> enic.rst
> features.rst
> hns3.rst
> i40e.rst
> intel_vf.rst
> ixgbe.rst
> liquidio.rst
> mlx4.rst
> mlx5.rst
> nfp.rst
> qede.rst
> virtio.rst

igb_uio is still available.
A next step in deprecation might be to remove igb_uio references.

> What about drivers like ark which don't mention vfio?

They should be updated by their maintainer.

> Does virtio still require igb_uio? or x86 I/O port for doorbell?
> Or is this just stale language.

Maxime, any update on the use of igb_uio with virtio?