On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:23:07 +0200 Antti Kantee <pooka at iki.fi> wrote:
> 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 I have some patches to get rid of some of the Intel driver assumptions. I will rebase and post them. They aren't a big deal just some of the hardcoded flag values are a nuisance.
