Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd

2021-04-19 Thread Zhang, Qi Z
> -Original Message- > From: Xing, Beilei > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:32 PM > To: Zhang, RobinX ; dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Guo, Jia ; Wang, Haiyue ; > m...@ashroe.eu; nhor...@tuxdriver.com; Wu, Jingjing > ; Yang, Qiming ; Yang, > SteveX ; Zhang, Qi Z ; Yigit, > Ferruh > Subject: RE: [PAT

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd

2021-04-19 Thread Xing, Beilei
> -Original Message- > From: Zhang, RobinX > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 11:06 AM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Xing, Beilei ; Guo, Jia ; Wang, > Haiyue ; m...@ashroe.eu; nhor...@tuxdriver.com; > Wu, Jingjing ; Yang, Qiming > ; Yang, SteveX ; Zhang, > RobinX ; Zhang, Qi Z ; Yigit, > Ferruh

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd

2021-04-18 Thread Robin Zhang
The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for Intel 700 serial (i40e) NIC family. To reach this, there will be 2 steps: Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be selected by devarg: "driver=i40evf". This is covered by this patch, which include: