Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] doc: add documentation for szedata2 PMD

[Matej Vido <matejvido@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

2015-10-27 19:00 GMT+01:00 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>:

> 2015-10-27 18:33, Matej Vido:
> > 2015-10-26 16:09 GMT+01:00 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>:
> > > SZEDATA2 is not a vdev. Is it possible to probe it as a standard PCI
> > > device?
> > >
> > It would be possible to probe it as a standard PCI device, but as this
> > szedata2 driver uses libsze2 library it needs to pass some parameters to
> > the library and we thought that using vdev would be the easiest solution.
> > Is there a way how to provide parameters to pdev driver?
>
> No, but it could be added by working on unifying pdev and vdev.
>
> > We also work on a new PMD which will eliminate dependencies on kernel
> > modules and libsze2, and using this PMD COMBO card will be probed as a
> > standard PCI device.
>
> I think it's better to wait for your new implementation.
> It would be nice to have it in the release 2.2.
> Do you think it could be submitted in the coming weeks?
>


We will not manage to submit the new driver implementation in the release
2.2. Any chance to get this virtual driver into 2.2?

Matej Vido