18/07/2025 14:13, David Marchand:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM hailinx <hailinx...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: hailinx <hailinx...@intel.com>

Please make sure to have your name here as Hailin Xu.

> > ---
> >  doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> > index a03ec7a7e8..6380e18feb 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> > @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Supported Chipsets and NICs
> >  - Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540-T2
> >  - Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550-T1
> >  - Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550-T2
> > +- Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E610-XT2
> > +- Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E610-XT4
> >
> >  Vector PMD for IXGBE
> >  --------------------
> > @@ -93,6 +95,25 @@ Windows Prerequisites and Pre-conditions
> >  - Loading of private Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) package
> >    is not supported on Windows.
> >
> > +Kernel driver and Firmware Matching List
> > +----------------------------------------
> > +
> > +It is highly recommended to upgrade the ixgbe kernel driver and firmware
> > +to avoid the compatibility issues with ixgbe PMD.
> 
> We never recommended such things so far for ixgbe.
> I think this is a wrong thing to advertise.
> The same applies to other Intel nics, btw.
> 
> You may insist that you validated with such a setup, but most users
> rely on in-tree drivers.

Hailin, would you reword to not recommend out-of-tree drivers?


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