Re: [PATCH] ntnic: add PMD driver
From: Thomas Monjalon <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-26 14:44:09
Welcome, 2016-08-26 13:44, Finn Christensen:
+NTNIC Poll Mode Driver +====================== + +The NTNIC poll mode driver library (**librte_pmd_ntnic**) implements support +for **Napatech NIC** 40/50 Gbps adapters. +This PMD is implemented as a pure software virtual device and must be created +by using the EAL --vdev=parameter (parameters are explained i detail later). +It runs on top of the Napatech NIC Driver Suite that must be installed and +started.
It would help a lot to describe what is the Napatech NIC Driver Suite, and why it is a virtual driver. What is the hardware it runs on? Where can we get it? Where can we download the Driver Suite?
+Supported Features +------------------ + +- RSS (Receive Side Scaling) +- TSS (Transmit Side Scaling) +- Promiscuous mode +- Basic statistics + + +Prerequisites +------------- + +Requires Napatech NIC and Napatech NIC Driver Suite installed and +running in version **0.3.0** or higher. +This includes external libraries and kernel driver for resources +allocations and initialization.
So the Driver Suite is just a library to help implementing the driver for the Napatech NIC? Thanks for explaining your solution