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
