From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754908AbYKZRBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:01:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753224AbYKZRBT (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:01:19 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:40238 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753143AbYKZRBR (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:01:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:59:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Yu Zhao Cc: "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "matthew@wil.cx" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" Subject: Re: [SR-IOV driver example 0/3] introduction Message-ID: <20081126165933.GB28251@kroah.com> References: <20081121183605.GA7810@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> <20081126140303.GA13641@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081126140303.GA13641@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:03:03PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: > SR-IOV drivers of Intel 82576 NIC are available. There are two parts > of the drivers: Physical Function driver and Virtual Function driver. > The PF driver is based on the IGB driver and is used to control PF to > allocate hardware specific resources and interface with the SR-IOV core. > The VF driver is a new NIC driver that is same as the traditional PCI > device driver. It works in both the host and the guest (Xen and KVM) > environment. > > These two drivers are testing versions and they are *only* intended to > show how to use SR-IOV API. That's funny, as some distros are already shipping this driver. You might want to tell them that this is an "example only" driver and not to be used "for real"... :( greg k-h