[dpdk-dev] announcing i82540 support for DPDK

Antti Kantee pooka at iki.fi
Thu May 23 18:33:08 CEST 2013


Hi folks,

I found myself last week wanting to do simple testing with DPDK, but did 
not possess the supported hardware and neither was the supported 
hardware emulated by any virtual machine I could place my hands on.  I 
ended up hacking enough support for 82540 into DPDK to get simple 
packetflows going from Linux running in a VM.

In case someone has similar needs, I've put the driver up on github. The 
driver development method was "copypaste + mangle just enough bits to 
get packets flowing", so it's not advisable to use the driver for 
anything apart from virtual machine testing.  In case there are a lot of 
similar needs within the community, maybe the driver can even be 
polished up and integrated into DPDK.

	https://github.com/anttikantee/dpdk-wm

enjoy,
   antti


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