From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] doc: add documentation for szedata2 PMD Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:00:59 +0100 Message-ID: <3635307.scPkXzVTSB@xps13> References: <1434702301-4509-1-git-send-email-vido@cesnet.cz> <2385499.t56VK4bXHN@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Matej Vido Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F21F8D3D for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:02:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by wicll6 with SMTP id ll6so171284523wic.0 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:02:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-10-27 18:33, Matej Vido: > 2015-10-26 16:09 GMT+01:00 Thomas Monjalon : > > 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?