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From: "Shukla, Shivanshu" <shivanshu.shukla@intel.com>
To: "Kadam, Pallavi" <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	"fady@mellanox.com" <fady@mellanox.com>,
	"Narcisa.Vasile@microsoft.com" <Narcisa.Vasile@microsoft.com>,
	"dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com" <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
	"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
	"Xing, Beilei" <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	"Menon, Ranjit" <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:01:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB454733D310301135E95184808CA29@DM6PR11MB4547.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210909232321.5091-4-pallavi.kadam@intel.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Kadam, Pallavi <pallavi.kadam@intel.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 4:23 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>; fady@mellanox.com; Narcisa.Vasile@microsoft.com; dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>; Menon, Ranjit <ranjit.menon@intel.com>; Shukla, Shivanshu <shivanshu.shukla@intel.com>; Kadam, Pallavi <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes

Add documentation to support iavf PMD on Windows.
Update the release notes for the same.

Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
Ack-by: Shivanshu Shukla <shivanshu.shukla@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst           | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst index fcea8151bf..20b89431a4 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
@@ -616,3 +616,21 @@ which belongs to the destination VF on the VM.
 .. figure:: img/inter_vm_comms.*
 
    Inter-VM Communication
+
+
+Windows Support
+---------------
+
+*   IAVF PMD currently is supported only inside Windows guest created on Linux host.
+
+*   Physical PCI resources are exposed as virtual functions into Windows VM using SR-IOV pass through feature.
+
+*   Create a Windows guest on Linux host using KVM hypervisor. Refer to the steps mentioned in the above section "Setting Up a KVM Virtual Machine monitor"
+
+*   In the Host machine, download and install the kernel Ethernet driver from:
+    
+`http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&amp;DwnldID=146
+87 
+<http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&amp;DwnldID=146
+87>`_
+
+*   For Windows guest, install NetUIO driver in place of existing built-in(inbox) Virtual Function driver.
+
+*   To load NetUIO driver, follow the steps mentioned in `dpdk-kmods repository
+    <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/tree/windows/netuio/README.rst>`_.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
index 675b573834..f5ae66a0ef 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ New Features
   * Added bus-level parsing of the devargs syntax.
   * Kept compatibility with the legacy syntax as parsing fallback.
 
+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
+
+  * Added Intel iavf support on Windows.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
--
2.31.1.windows.1


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-22 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-28 23:08 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/iavf: enable on Windows Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] Support iavf PMD " Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/iavf: build " Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] lib/net: fix support of random Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 20:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 23:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Support iavf PMD on Windows Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-09 23:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] net/iavf: build " Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-22 20:58       ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-09 23:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] lib/net: fix support of random Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-22 21:00       ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-30 16:46       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-30 22:36         ` Kadam, Pallavi
2021-09-09 23:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update iavf PMD and 21.11 release notes Pallavi Kadam
2021-09-22 21:01       ` Shukla, Shivanshu [this message]
2021-09-30 16:49       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-30 19:07       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-22 20:56     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Support iavf PMD on Windows Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-22 20:58     ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-27 21:33     ` Shukla, Shivanshu
2021-09-30 20:15     ` Thomas Monjalon

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